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An Axe commercial in which lusty angels fall to earth, drawn by the scent of one random dude's body spray, first hit airwaves in February — but now it has been banned in South Africa. AdFreak reports that one guy, a Christian, complained about the ad, and deemed it offensive, "specifically over the idea that angels would forsake their divinity for aerosol cologne." More »
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• Cyndi Lauper and Lady Gaga's M.A.C. Viva Glam ad is out. Gaga looks...surprisingly normal. [FWD]

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• Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have designed a fine jewelry collection for Asprey, which goes on sale this week. The line, themed around snakes and called "The Protector," starts at $525; all proceeds go to support Jolie's children's charity. [WWD]

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This summer you can live like you're in an Axe commercial when the brand sponsors a Hamptons nightclub for the entire summer. Will ladies be as irresistibly attracted to the club as they are to dudes who douse themselves in the gross-smelling body spray? More »
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• Noooooo! Grazia reports Olivier Theyskens is leaving Nina Ricci. [The Cut]
• Or not: the mag attributes the scoop to "buzz currently sweeping through the front rows of the Couture shows in Paris." [Fashionista]

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Do you ever like to imagine stories about people you see on the street? Dove asked female strangers to share first impressions of one another on video, and the results are strangely uplifting. More »
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Deodorant brands Sure and Dove are set to release new deodorants next month that promise to slow underarm hair growth with regular use. The brands, both made by Unilever, are said to use a "pro-epil" complex which supposedly slows the rate of hair growth. Unilever believes that the new products will be popular with "image-conscious young women" and will generate £10 million in sales in the first year alone. [Daily Mail; image via BellaSugar] More »
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We've discussed skin-lightening in India before, but, according to The Independent, new skin-whitening commercials are igniting a "race row" in that country. The commercials feature three of Bollywood's biggest stars in a soap opera-style love triangle. The dark chick is dissed for a lighter-skinned woman, so she turns to a product called White Beauty. The cream promises a "pinkish white glow," and the not-so-subtle subtext is that you need fair skin to snag a man. (Let's not forget the woman who killed herself when her husband called her "black.") And who manufactures this cream called White Beauty? Why, Unilever, the same folks who urge you to "love your body" in Dove ads. How is it they they can make "Love Your Body" Dove ads and "hate your skin" bleaching creams? More »
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As mentioned on Monday, Pascal Dangin, the "the premier retoucher of fashion photographs," doesn't just work on Vogue. He also may have Photoshopped the Dove Campaign For Real Beauty. AdAge contacted Unilever, Dove's parent company, and so far they have stayed mum. But a a spokeswoman for the campaign's creator, Ogilvy & Mather said: "We are unsure right now what he did. He works with Annie Leibovitz, the photographer. And we don't have any record of him actually working on any of the Dove campaign. There was no retouching of the women. If there was a hair that was up in the air, that might have been the kind of retouching that was done. But until I know what he actually worked on, I can't comment on it." Well, someone needs to comment. We know Unilever has been hypocritical in the past, but this is just ridiculous. [AdAge] More »
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Yesterday, when we presented the new Dove commerical, Onslaught, we neglected to mention a few things. Luckily, blogs Feministing and Feministe reminded us of a few facts! For starters, while Dove can be applauded for examining the damaging effects of the beauty industry, its parent company, Unilever, is a major manufacturer of skin-lightening creams marketed in India. (Because, you know, the lighter your skin, the more beautiful you are.) In addition, Unilever makes Axe body spray, whose sexist and just plain stupid ad campaigns and "humilidating" show don't exactly send the message that the Onslaught spot does. And there's more: Unilever spends $809 million on advertising: it markets Dove, which encourages women to love their bodies, Ben & Jerry's ice cream, in which you can drown your sorrows if you don't love your body, and Slim-Fast, to make your body thin enough to love. More »
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Today's New York Times has a disturbing yet wholly unsurprising story about the expanding market in India for skin-whitening creams. Apparently global cosmetics companies like Avon, Garnier, Body Shop (?!) and Vichy (advertisement above) are taking on longtime market leader Fair & Lovely to cash in on the common perception on the Subcontinent that the lighter a woman's skin, the better her life will be. In fact, you could call the "perfect", Wonder Bread-complexion just another weapon in the war against gender inequality! More »
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Nothing warms the cockles of our hearts more than when the owner of every leading ice cream brand (and also Slim-Fast!) decides to round out its offerings for the binge-purge demographic by inventing a new line of "firming" anti-cellulite lotions marketed under the auspices of aggressive self-acceptance. Unilever, the consumer products conglomerate behind Ben & Jerry's and all those new anti-cellulite lotions you should buy if you are one of those people who is kind of fat and cottage-cheesy but totally comfortable and happy that way (except, like, sorta not?) made a really profound and paradigmic announcement today: No more size zero models in its ads! More »
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According to today's Slate, Unilever, the company responsible for the above atrocity, is also responsible for the "love-your-body" ads produced for Dove's Campaign For Real Beauty. More »
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