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united colors of benetton advertisement featuring hu jintao, paramount leader of the people's republic of china, with barack obama, president of the USA
united colors of benetton has just unveiled its new 'unhate' advertising campaign in a handful,
of cities, featuring manipulated images that show unlikely pairings of international religious and
political leaders kissing one another.
the ad campaign supports the company's 'unhate foundation' think tank and arts research center,
designed to organize events and promote acts of intervention towards a more tolerant world.
as its first series of actions, benetton organized the hoisting of large posters and projection of digital
images of the controversial advertisements in public spaces in new york, milan, rome, tel aviv, and paris.
online, the organization's 'kiss wall' invites users from around the world to upload diptyched images
that mimic kissing duos, alongside a message of tolerance and 'unhate'.
'what does 'unhate' mean? 'un-hate. stop hating, if you were hating. unhate is a message that invites us
to consider that hate and love are not as far away from each other as we think. actually, the two opposing
sentiments are often in a delicate and unstable balance. our campaign promotes a shift in the balance.'
- alessandro benetton, executive vice president

ad featuring pope bendetto XVI with ahmed el tayyeb, imam of al-azhar mosque in cairo

north korea's kim jong-ii and lee myung-bak, president of south korea

israel prime minister benjamin netanyahu and palestinian president mahmoud abbas

german chancellor angela merkel and french president nicholas sarkozy

US president barack obama with venezuelan president hugo chavez

'guerrilla intervention' in milan, piazza duomo

'guerrilla intervention' in milan's piazza affari (milan stock exchange)

'guerrilla intervention' in new york's times square
And Berlusconi, where is he? hahaha
he’s not a leader anymore, you know…
@tj… yes, i know, me happy, me italian
eeeww disgusting
gates and jobs?
Love it!!!exelent marketnig campagne
where is iran’s president?
Uhuuu!! necessary political orgy…
just hand in hand, not kissing.
@myfezazi why gates and jobs? they are not hating each other,
John Boehner & Mitch McConnell?
Berlusconi is doing moer then kissing
make love
make peace
really, were is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? And Putin!
Awesome campaign!
berlusconi is in a brothel, believe me, i’m italian…
stunning political campaign – but does not make me buy benetton.
I-HATE this campaign.
great! remember politics is also fashionable.
really, were is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?
kinky
Berlusconi prefer to kiss something else.
D’Addario’s feet, for example.
I like it !
I’d kiss Angela Merkel too.. she’s an hottie GILF
Angie!
gross. This is disrespectful. Don’t they have to obtain permission to portray these men in this way? The concept is lovely. I like the idea above of them holding hands, or sitting in a sandbox playing or pretty much anything else but this is over the line.
over the line? get over yourself. dolt.
FELCITACIONES!!!
Benetton has always been so creative!…
Benetton has again proved they prefer to squander their potential influence for cheap shots that are most definitively NOT creative. Controversial art or political statements make you think and take action; but this is sophomoric and stupid.
As a company they more likely to loose customers promoting imagery like this instead of investing in strategies that might make a difference. Pity a company that chooses to make themselves look ridiculous instead of creating powerful imagery that embeds it’s message and truly changes lives. Does no one remember their campaign showing a horizontal woman being used as an ironing board? Shame on them again.
Yes!!! Really cool campaign. Great, that they sustain this level of creativity and always come up with new original ideas.
Photoshop used for its favourite purpose. I get the message… but i have no ideal what this has to do with buying clothes.
the pope already start to HATE! typical of the church
beautiful work
It’s a great work!!!!
do u remember the 90′s benetton’s work from Oliviero Toscani????
@C|USA: be positive…unhate the world! unhate Benetton! jejejejejee
It’s really well done ! I love this communication campaign !
Very well done photowork
All right . I have to say it is so good. I come from China.
its a really horrible camping frm UCB
Looks a little familiar… George4Saddam street art piece from 2003, at the start of the Iraq war.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/2sickbastards/3900669593/
Where is Putin?
Politicians, sure.. Religious leader, don’t go there. Not cool.
I believe the gap between what they do (bourgeois casual fashion) and what they promote (art, scandal, politics) is way too great.
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