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Chanel and Burberry warned they risk becoming 'branches of the porn industry'

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By John Glenday, Reporter

November 28, 2013 | 1 min read

Fashion industry stalwarts including Chanel and Burberry have been labelled as ‘becoming a branch of the porn industry’ by a former host of BBC’s The Clothes Show.

Writing in the Daily Mail, Caryn Franklin questioned whether risqué ads for brands such as Chanel, which recently employed actress Keira Knightley to seductively kiss a perfume bottle whilst wearing a trench coat, were really necessary.

Franklin asked: “Since when did adverts for women's clothes go from being fun, frothy and often empowering to little more than pornography targeted at boys and men rather than the females who buy the products?”

Another campaign which caught Franklin’s eye was a knicker-less Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, coincidentally wearing another trench coat, prompting the presenter to say: “This isn't selling fashion. This is selling nothing except sex, and it is being sold to girls when they are at their most impressionable by an industry whose influence is titanic and goes practically unchecked.”

Franklin is calling for a similar discussion as has taken place recently around the 'pornification of pop' to be broadened out to the fashion world.

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