YOU'VE GOT TO HAND IT TO CALVIN KLEIN: HE REALLY knows how to milk an advertising campaign, even a doomed one. First you push the envelope until it splits open by putting pubescent models in lurid poses, then plaster them on billboards and magazines-and air them on TV. If you're lucky, parents, the Catholic League and other religious groups will protest, especially over the video in which an offscreen male voice tells a girl standing alone that she's pretty and not to be nervous. Promise to withdraw the ads with an Orwellian statement about how your "positive message" was "misunderstood" and...
WHERE CALVIN CROSSED THE LINE
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