Ban on Calvin Klein’s FKA twigs ad revoked after ASA climbdown

FKA twigs had reacted to the ruling by saying that she did not identify with what the ASA 'labelled’ her. Photograph: ASA/PA

The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority has backtracked on its decision to ban a Calvin Klein advertisement featuring the British singer FKA twigs, citing the “strength of public feeling”.

The ASA said that after “careful thought” it had decided that “the image was not sexually explicit, that the ad presented FKA twigs as confident and in control and, therefore, that she had not been objectified”.