News flash! Abercrombie & Fitch promotional photos are apparently too hot to handle for some retailers. Everyone knows that A&F campaigns tend to show more bare skin than clothing, but apparently for some people in Virginia enough was enough. Police in Virginia Beach confiscated promotional posters of barely-clothed men and women and also cited the manager of the store with an obscenity charge. Here's a clip from the article from Yahoo! News:The police issued the summons Saturday after Abercrombie management did not heed warnings to remove the images from the Lynnhaven Mall store after some customers complained, police spokesman Adam Bernstein said.Abercrombie & Fitch had their quarterly catalog discontinued a few years ago after it was called explicit. They also came under fire in 2004 and settled at $50 million lawsuit claiming they had a "white only" marketing plan.
One photograph showed three shirtless young men, with one man's upper buttocks showing. The other image was of a woman whose breast was mostly exposed, authorities said.
City code makes it a crime to display "obscene materials in a business that is open to juveniles," Bernstein said.
Bernstein said police charged the manager because there is no legal way to issue a summons to a corporate entity in such circumstances. If convicted, the manager faces a fine of up to $2,000 and as much as a year in jail.
What do you think of their promotions? Do you even know what their clothes look like?