Considering that the other ads in this campaign consisted of images like a woman grabbing a man's crotch, and a nude woman ironing while a man smokes a cigar and drinks some champagne -- it's hard to understand why the Italian Advertising Institute singled out this ad for banishment. For some weird reason, this is the straw that broke the camels back. %Gallery-20695%
Three women's magazines that contain the banned ad have already been published, but the rest will have to be re-printed, or else be put on the shelf with the nudie magazines. Geez, that's a lot of wasted paper. We have to hand it to Ford, not only does he make great suits and sunglasses that you can find at Costco, but he turns out some of the most provocatively sexy ads around.
The finger in the mouth ad was called "deeply vulgar" in a statement from the Ad Institute. Really? We don't see anything too vulgar about it at all? It's just a woman with a man's finger in her mouth -- maybe she choking on something and he's trying to dislodge it?
Alright, alright. We admit that it's highly suggestive, but we hardly think it's as misogynistic as the one where the guy is watching the woman iron and smoking the cigar.
What's up with designers and their weird finger-mouth obsessions anyway? Last week it was Victoria Beckham sucking her thumb for Marc Jacobs, and now this.