Controversial Kids Lingerie Line Designer Shocked By Outrage
Posted on Aug 18, 2011 @ 01:30PM
By Leah Ornstein - Radar Style & Beauty Editor
After stirring up a media uproar for a provocative new lingerie line targeted at 4-to-12-year-olds and a racy advertising campaign to go along with it, Sophie Morin, the designer of French label Jours Apres Lunes, has released a statement exclusively to RadarOnline.com, expressing her shock over the controversy.
Several fashion industry experts and bloggers have blasted the the “loungerie” line, which markets bras, panties and loungewear to kids. The issue was brought to attention on Monday by Fashionista who noted: “What’s disturbing about Jours Apres Lunes is not just the fact that it’s lingerie for people who probably shouldn’t be old enough to even know what lingerie is, but the photographs on their website.”
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Morin is shocked over the controversy and believes that there is nothing scandalous about their product or their advertising campaign. She explains to Radar that the photos depict nothing more than children playing games and that none of them are wearing heels, nail polish or lipstick.
As for the plentiful amount of skin exposed (belly, legs) the designer simply states that there is no more skin exposed than as kids on the beach.
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She even compares the scenario to children being depicted in “cowboys & Indians” themes, posing the question: Does that make them future criminals?
Morin, who has worked in the industry for 15 years, maintains that this is the first time she has been under blast and that she has all the support of the French fashion industry.
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The Daily Juice
why dont you just hand your daughter over to a pedophile and get it over with? WHAT A DISGRACE.
Posted Thu, 08/18/2011 - 11:21pm
The ONLY people that see nothing wrong with this are pedophiles and child molesters..this is just sick and disgusting. These pictures are nothing more than child pornography and people should be prosecuted for circulating them
Posted Thu, 08/18/2011 - 9:51pm
Get a grip...gorgeous boudoir photography, nothing more. It's what is in the observers mind that makes it sick. Beautiful little girls growing up in the REAL WORLD.
Posted Thu, 08/18/2011 - 9:23pm
A child molesters dream is right.WHEN are people going to see the OBVIOUS????
Posted Thu, 08/18/2011 - 9:12pm
A child molester's dream!
Posted Thu, 08/18/2011 - 5:47pm
Oh my god. Went to the site. This is disgusting. What parent allows their young child to pose this way? I've also seen what amounts to string bikini's on small girls. This is just wrong on so many levels.
Posted Thu, 08/18/2011 - 4:43pm
Just looks like young girls playing dress up to me !!!! THis is better then them trying to wear there Moms bras and trying to be sexy. I dont really see anything wrong with it. No different then walmart posting little boys in P.J.'s or boxers.
Posted Thu, 08/18/2011 - 4:16pm
xxxxx@xxxxx.com
I wrote this company and protested their sexual images of little girls that are being passed around by
pedophiles. You should too.
Posted Thu, 08/18/2011 - 3:53pm
The whole line is pretty racy and not appropriate for little girls. The pics have the kids in makeup. ratted up hair, and pearls. Totally perfect reading for your neighborhood pedophile . I'm disgusted!
Posted Thu, 08/18/2011 - 3:34pm
Because it's only sexualizing them if they ae in heels... Ok, sure.
Posted Thu, 08/18/2011 - 3:16pm