Dolce & Gabbana Under Intense Hit Over Old Ad Campaign Photos

Dolce & Gabbana have come under intense hit again, this time for a 2007 ad that depicts the gang rape of a woman who is being restrained as a group of men watch.

Few days after popular designers Stefano Gabbana and Domenico Dolce called children born through IVF ‘synthetic’, critics of the brand have publicized the brand's highly controversial Spring/Summer 2007 campaign ad that showed a woman being restrained by a bare chested man as a group of men in various states of undress look on.

The advertisement was banned from being used in Italian publications after it ran several times when it was determined that it 'offended the dignity of the woman,' and pulled in the United States after running just once in an issue of Esquire.

When the ad was first pulled in Spain, the design duo referred to the people of that country as 'a bit backward.'

 Publicist Kelly Cutrone posted the ad to her Twitter account on Sunday writing:

The ad actually features one of Cutrone's former costars on the MTV reality series the City, model Adam Senn.

The duo also depicted a group sex scene featuring all men in another ad that was slightly more graphic, though the man, unlike the woman, was not being restrained. 

 

An ad from the same campaign showed a shot that featured the men dressed and in which the woman was not restrained did run in magazines .