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Jessica Brown
Mar 01, 2017
Muireann O’Connell / Twitter
Promoting all of the wonderful sizes and shapes we come in is surely always a good thing for fashion retailers to do, right?
Especially when the fashion industry is repeatedly criticised for using underweight models and promoting unrealistic beauty standards.
But Zara perhaps took a little bit of a wrong turn when they seemingly forgot to use any curvy models in a campaign about celebrating curves.
Twitter user Muireann O’Connell tweeted a photo of a campaign poster by the clothing retailer, spotted in Dublin, alongside her thoughts:
Yep, that pretty much sums it up.
The poster is in the store too:
O'Connell added:
... And:
And people have understandably kicked off:
indy100 has contacted Zara for comment.
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