- Photograph appeared on La Redoute’s website for several hours
- Internet users also spot spelling mistake on one of firm’s T-shirt
By
Lee Moran
Last updated at 5:30 PM on 4th January 2012
French fashion chain La Redoute has been left red-faced after it forgot to airbrush a naked bather from a promotional photograph for its children’s clothes.
The image, which appeared for several hours on its website today, showed a group of four children running on the sand.
But, in the background, a naked man can clearly be seen wading behind them up the sea-shore.
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Embarrassing: The naked bather appears in the background of a La Redoute publicity shot which appeared on its website
Web users spotted the ‘faux pas’, which has since been taken down, and immediately took to Twitter to poke fun at the clothing company.
One tweeter labelled it a ‘SCANDALE’ while another highlighted the ‘EPIC FAIL de la Redoute!’.
La Redoute immediately apologised for the mistake, but its website has now come under intense scrutiny from users who also discovered a spelling mistake on one of its T-shirts.
Instead of having ‘Enjoy Holidays’ written on the garment, it actually says ‘Enjoy Holydays’.
Faux pas: One of La Redoute’s T-shirts has Enjoy Holydays rather than Enjoy Holidays printed on it
The bather’s identity has not yet been revealed, but he has already sprung to fame across the web with a series of mocking images being produced.
Some keen photoshoppers have cut and paste famous people into the original image, which has seen President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni, and even late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, taking his place.
Others have placed a cut-out of the naked man in other situations, including a music festival and in someone’s house.
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Oeuf Ecossaise! Nothing like seeing stones thrown from the DM’s very own glasshouse when it comes to spelling mistakes. Perhaps Redoute use the same subs
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Load of old b0ll0x – also seems to have been airbrushed a bit – who cares, honestly? Children on the continent go to nudist beaches all the time!
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Ooh sexxay!!!!—–not.
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– Al, St Lucia, 5/1/2012 10:31, the enlarged picture has been modified by someone at DM since it was originally posted a few hours ago.
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He’s a bit too early for these Spring Breakers..
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“I am furious that this company think it ok to take young children to a nudist beach – how disgusting and so wrong for the children who should not be exposed to that. Disgraceful of them.” – crusader4animals,
You wouldn’t get far living sur-le-continent, as nudist beaches are widely available – and used by all the family.
What makes you look stupid is that children don’t notice these things – until pointed out to them by the PC brigade.
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I think it’s a failed airbrush. Enlarged it appears to be not only a foot long but coming out of his stomach. All publicity is good publicity.
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I am furious that this company think it ok to take young children to a nudist beach – how disgusting and so wrong for the children who should not be exposed to that. Disgraceful of them.
– crusader4animals, get caMORON out of government now, 5/1/2012 2:42
Why would you automatically assume it was a nudist beach? What a negative person you must be. It’s funny, lighten up!
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Imagine if that guy had pulled a sickie at work that day. : {
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And the problem is…. ? Be careful not to over-sexualize the human body!
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