A CALVIN Klein poster ad featuring British musician FKA twigs with a denim shirt draped across her body, revealing her hip and sideboob, has been banned.
A caption on the poster read: “Calvins or nothing.”
The Advertising Standards Authority received two complaints and said the image portrayed the singer as “a stereotypical sexual object”.
Calvin Klein called FKA twigs a “confident and empowered woman”, adding that she had approved the image.
FKA twigs was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Her birth name is Tahliah Debrett Barnett.
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At 16 she began performing as a singer in youth clubs, before moving to London to pursue a career as a dancer.
She appeared as a backing dancer in Jessie J's videos for Do It Like A Dude and Price Tag, and also danced alongside Kylie Minogue, Ed Sheeran, and Plan B.
After making her first demos at 18, she began to get more modeling work and acquired a nickname - twigs - based on the way her joints crack when she moves.
She changed it to FKA twigs when an artist known as The Twigs complained, but she's subsequently denied FKA stands for “formerly known as”, insisting the letters mean nothing “in particular”.
The music made by FKA twigs defies easy definition but it's generally referred to as a mix of R&B, electronica and trip-hop.
She's said of her work process: “I like to experiment with sounds, generating emotions while putting my voice on certain atmospheres...
“I found my own way of playing punk. I like industrial sounds and incorporating everyday life's sounds like a car alarm.”
