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easyJet blamed for Holocaust fashion shoot

by Dave on 24/11/09 at 4:25 pm

easyJet, the London-based lowcost airline, has recently published an inflight magazine featuring models that posed at the Berlin Holocaust memorial. The November issue of the magazine caused quite a stirr and it was considered offensive by their Jewish passengers.

As a result, this month’s edition was withdrawn. The controversial photo shoot featured male and female models wearing designer clothes posing at the Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe.

The Memorial’s Uwe Neumärker director said he gave no permission for the shooting to take place. He “grants permissions only to projects which are related to the memorial, the Holocaust or some aspect of commemoration.”

“The Foundation Memorial does not support commercial shoots, and fashion photography is considered to fall into this category. The Foundation Memorial will contact the easyJet airline company in writing in order to clarify the circumstances of the photo shoot,” he added.

easyJet officialy apologized to anyone that was offended by the pictures. easyJet was not aware of the images until the magazine was printed by the company in charge of producing it, INK.

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