In the ad, FKA twigs looks directly at the camera.
What’s clear, though, is that the Jeremy Allen White ads expose much more of his body than the FKA twigs ad exposes of hers.
And the FKA twigs ad isn’t the only one in which a woman appears partly nude to advertise her Calvins.
And in another, she’s wearing just socks and underwear with no top — again covering her breasts with her arms, but, like FKA twigs, also exposing the side of her leg, torso, arm and breast; unlike FKA twigs, she’s sitting rounded over, in a less stereotypically powerful, and more passive-appearing, position.
The Calvin Klein company said its ad was from a partnership with FKA twigs, a confident and empowered woman.
Persons:
Jill Filipovic, Calvin Klein, Jeremy Allen White, she’s, Josephine Baker, Eartha Kitt, Grace Jones, “, Kendall Jenner, Jean Kilbourne, —, wasn’t “, ”, Brooke Shields, Shields, White, Jenner
Organizations:
Twitter, CNN, New York Times, Authority, Standards Agency
Locations:
New York