All tag results for 'domestic violence'

Uh oh! Vogue has been very bad!!!

The mag and Conde Nast are feeling the heat from domestic violence and women's rights advocacy groups Vogue Hommes International's latest and risque cover.

Shot by Terry Richardson, the Fall/Winter cover features a sultry Stephanie Seymour being choked by Marlon Teixeira. On the inside, the models get exxxtra handsy, grabbing each other's lady and man parts.

In a letter to Conde Nast, Sanctuary for Families, Safe Horizon, Equality Now, and the New York chapter of NOW demand the magazine cover be pulled from newsstands, adding:

Tags: choking, controversy, cover, domestic violence, fall 2012 cover, fall 2012 isue, magazine, stephanie seymour, terry richardson, vogue

Stop the violence!

Makeup artist, Lauren Luke released a tutorial on YouTube teaching women how to cover up their injuries from spousal abuse.

The video was made for the domestic violence charity, Refuge, to strengthen women to stop covering up and start fighting back!

Check out the inspirational broadcast (above).

Tags: domestic violence, fake makeup tutorial, lauren luke, refuge, youtube

To celebrate International Women's Day, Reese Witherspoon released her lovely Empowerment Necklace through the Avon Foundation.

At only $5, women everywhere can get their hands on the beautiful silvertone necklace Reese is wearing. All net profits will of course go to Avon's Speak Out Against Domestic Violence campaign.

As the Honorary Chairman and Global Ambassador of the Avon Foundation for Women, Reese has a lot to say on the issue of domestic violence

Tags: avon, charity, domestic violence, empowerment necklace, necklace, reese witherspoon, womens rights

What is up with all the domestic violence references lately?

First there was the Canadian hair salon ad, then the Tyler Shields photo and now this.

Topshop's brother label Topman was forced to pull a shirt that mad fun of domestic violence after being inundated with complaints of their Facebook page.

The company issued a statement shortly after, saying:

"We have received some negative feedback regarding two of our printed T-shirts. Whilst we would like to stress that these T-shirts were meant to be light-hearted and carried no serious meaning, we have made the decision to remove these from store and online as soon as possible. We would like to apologise to those who may have been offended by these designs."

The other shirt they are referring to is one that compared women to dogs: "Nice New Girlfriend, What Breed Is She?".

Thoughts???

Tags: controversy, domestic violence, pulled, topman, tyler shields

Looking at the above pic definitely makes us a bit uncomfortable.

Glee's Heather Morris posed for a series of photos taken by photographer Tyler Shields, which included a photo called "Even Barbie Bruises."

As soon as the photo was released a few days ago, many critics complained that it glamorized violence towards women.

After seeing the photo, critic Piper Weiss called for a protest against the fashion industry:

"Isn't turning a young actress into a doll enough of a talker without also beating her up? At this point, it's not even worth a debate to add more fuel to the fire. What needs to happen is an internal snub from the fashion industry to assert that that kind of attention-baiting is unacceptable. It's become an industry-standard publicity measure, and one that wouldn't fly in any other field. Fashion thrives on controversy, but abuse against women isn't even controversial, it's just off limits."

Shields has since apologized for the photo, but still defends the concept. He plans on giving 30% of the proceeds for two of the less-controversial photos, which will be donated to a homeless charity. Meanwhile 100% of the proceeds for three limited edition lithographs of the close-up, signed by Shields, will go to a domestic violence organization.

Bidding will start at $100,000.

We applaud his efforts to make amends.

Tags: barbie, bruise, charity, domestic violence, donated, glee, heather morris, photos, tyler shields

An ad for a hair salon is causing all sorts of controversy in Canada.

The ad is part of Edmonton-based Fluid Salon's "Look Good In All You Do Campaign" and shows a woman/victim of domestic violence sitting on a couch with a black eye while a man stands behind her holding a diamond necklace.

Despite the public's backlash, the salon owner is standing by the ad. Sarah Cameron wrote on Facebook:

In response to the recent controversy regarding one of the ads from out "Look Good In All You Do" campaign, we launched over the past year, we respect everyone's right to their interpretation of what they perceive the message to be. Similar to music videos, works of art, media, books, the ads were out interpretation of a particular "art form" - we are a Hair and Beauty Salon - our business is to make people "LOOK GOOD". Is it cutting edge advertising? Yes. Is it intended to be a satirical look at real life situations that ignites conversation and debate? Of course. Is it to everyone's taste? Probably not.

Edmonton is presently the murder capital of Canada. Media's energy and time may be better spent boycotting dangerous areas, gangs, guns and other street weapons, or a sick justice system, which unfortunately is still sadly lacking when it comes to punishing abusers of any kind.

Last year, we released an ad with our interpretation of the BP oil spill, which also upset people. With that response we did our part to turn it into something positive and we donated all hair cut at Fluid to create mats to help clean up the oil. In that same fashion we will be actively setting up partnerships to generate donations with appropriate organizations in this community. That is a promise. And we will keep doing what we do which is create high fashion, editorial hair styles with all natural products that won't compromise your health. To kick things off any person that comes into Fluid from now on and mentions this ad we will donate proceeds from all services book to the Edmonton Women's Shelter.

If survivors of abuse interpret this ad to make light of any abusive situation, we sincerely apologize, that was never our intent as that are people that worked on this campaign who are survivors of abuse. To the rest of you who this has deeply affected, we truly hope you do something to help stop domestic violence. Truly honor the survivors that you are standing up for. Unfortunately boycotting a hair salon will not accomplish this.

Media genre that promotes freedom of speech and expression only for themselves are hypocritical. Please interpret the ad as freedom dictates – that is your right – just as artistic expression is our right.

What are YOUR thoughts???

Tags: controversy, domestic violence, edmonton canada, facebook, fluid salon, sarah cameron