Posted on Dec 13, 2023
Zara pulls ad campaign that critics said resembled Gaza destruction
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The fashion brand Zara apologized after its latest ad campaign, called "The Jacket," was widely criticized as tone-deaf and insensitive for evoking the destruction in Gaza.
Although the campaign was conceived in July and photographed in September, many customers felt the release of the photos last Thursday, during the war, was insensitive. The Israel-Hamas war broke out on Oct. 7.
In the ads, a model stands surrounded by mannequins, some missing limbs and others covered in white plastic shrouds, which critics said looked like corpses. Some drew a comparison between the cloth in the ad and a typical Muslim burial shroud.
The fashion brand Zara apologized after its latest ad campaign, called "The Jacket," was widely criticized as tone-deaf and insensitive for evoking the destruction in Gaza.
Although the campaign was conceived in July and photographed in September, many customers felt the release of the photos last Thursday, during the war, was insensitive. The Israel-Hamas war broke out on Oct. 7.
In the ads, a model stands surrounded by mannequins, some missing limbs and others covered in white plastic shrouds, which critics said looked like corpses. Some drew a comparison between the cloth in the ad and a typical Muslim burial shroud.
Zara pulls ad campaign that critics said resembled Gaza destruction
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."This is not the first time Zara has fallen under scrutiny for being anti-Palestinian. In 2021, the company's head designer for the women's department, Vanessa Perilman, was criticized for comments she made on Instagram to Palestinian model Qaher Harhash, saying, "Maybe if your people were educated then they wouldn't blow up the hospitals and schools that Israel helped to pay for in Gaza."
In a statement later posted online, the company responded that it "does not accept any lack of respect to any culture, religion, country, race or belief. Zara is a diverse company and we shall never tolerate discrimination of any kind."
..."This is not the first time Zara has fallen under scrutiny for being anti-Palestinian. In 2021, the company's head designer for the women's department, Vanessa Perilman, was criticized for comments she made on Instagram to Palestinian model Qaher Harhash, saying, "Maybe if your people were educated then they wouldn't blow up the hospitals and schools that Israel helped to pay for in Gaza."
In a statement later posted online, the company responded that it "does not accept any lack of respect to any culture, religion, country, race or belief. Zara is a diverse company and we shall never tolerate discrimination of any kind."
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