Debate has heated up in Sweden regarding American Apparel’s sexualization of its female models.
The retailer’s shock-tactic ads featuring naked women are certainly nothing new. But this week Swedish blogger Emelie Eriksson made headlines by juxtaposing male models’ poses in unisex American Apparel Clothing with the R-rated images of women wearing the same shirts (often sans pants).
To show how American Apparel’s double standard works, a small Swedish clothing company named byPM decided to do a photo shoot in which a man posed in the same positions as American Apparel’s female models.
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The model was byPM’s founder and partial owner, Petter Lindqvist.
“We, as a really small clothing brand, wanted to get into the debate but without using words,” Lindqvist told Business Insider via email. “To see how people would react.”
He ended up getting his partially naked self in one of Sweden’s largest papers.
Here’s how American Apparel poses men in a unisex blue button down:
Here’s how American Apparel depicts women:
And here’s how a man would look in the very same pose:
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“Oppenheimer” is the best picture favorite, but the best actress race is full of suspense. Our expert predicts which films and artists will get trophies on Sunday.
By Kyle Buchanan
Follow our live updates for the 2024 Oscars.
“American Fiction”
“Anatomy of a Fall”
“Barbie”
“The Holdovers”
“Killers of the Flower Moon”
“Maestro”
✓“Oppenheimer”
“Past Lives”
“Poor Things”
“The Zone of Interest”
Let’s be real: The best picture race is locked up for “Oppenheimer.” Christopher Nolan gave Oscar voters an IMAX-sized helping of their favorite genre — the great-man-of-history biopic — and after the movie made nearly a billion dollars worldwide, its path to the top Oscar was clear.
Still, why not add some stakes to the situation? See whether you can sabotage the people in your Oscar pool by convincing them that a dark-horse candidate can topple Nolan’s mighty contender.
Now it’s your turn to predict which nominees will win.
Suggest, for example, that “The Holdovers” may mirror the little-film-that-could trajectory of “CODA” (though you’d better leave out that “The Holdovers” didn’t win the top prize at the Producers Guild Awards, as “CODA” so tellingly did). Note that the expansive international contingent of the academy could swing things toward “Anatomy of a Fall” (though if that were the case, we would have seen signs of it at last month’s BAFTA ceremony). Or mention that the path to best picture tends to go through the screenplay categories, and since “Oppenheimer” is in danger of losing a writing trophy to “American Fiction” or “Barbie,” maybe those movies are the real threats.
Say anything you want! Have fun causing a little chaos. Just be sure to mark down “Oppenheimer” on your own ballot, because it’s winning.
Jonathan Glazer, “The Zone of Interest”
Yorgos Lanthimos, “Poor Things”
✓Christopher Nolan, “Oppenheimer”
Martin Scorsese, “Killers of the Flower Moon”
Justine Triet, “Anatomy of a Fall”
Though the 53-year-old Nolan has come to be regarded as the premier blockbuster director of his generation, one feat he still hasn’t managed is winning an Academy Award. That will finally change this weekend, completing a journey that started 15 years ago when the Oscars expanded the amount of best picture nominees after his film “The Dark Knight” was snubbed in the two top categories. Now, Nolan will win both.
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Article by B.H Prasad Published on: 7:25 pm, 17 July 2023
After the birth of her son, many thought that 38-year-old Kajal Aggarwal will take a break from acting, but then, the actress resumed work within just three months of leave. Right now, she has movies like Balayya’s Bhagavant Kesari and Kamal Haasan’s Indian 2 in hand, which are getting ready for a release, and here comes her spicy treat.
In the latest photograph shared by the actress, which was believed to be shot a couple of months ago, the senior heroine stunned her fans big time. She posed in an unbuttoned teal-colored blazer and pants, holding the top with her hands. Definitely, none would expect Kajal to go that racy or give such an illusion in the first place, but the actress pulled it off effortlessly as she heated the circuits thereby blasting the thermometers.
However, Kajal Aggarwal has done some bold shoots earlier too but later stated that they were all photoshopped. She has done a shoot for a magazine, where she went topless as well, but claimed it as a digital work, which is rebutted by the magazine clarifying that they have original shoot photographs and behind-the-scenes videos too. And years later, after enjoying all of her stardom, it looks like the actress decided to go bold again to turn heads.

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