Zara kids campaign ad slammed by mums as ‘inappropriate’

The fashion retailer has come under fire for its latest kids campaign, with some mums complaining it made them “uncomfortable”.

Zara has come under fire in Britain after mums accused the clothing store of “sexualising children” in “completely inappropriate” campaign.

Taking to Mumsnet, one mum posted several snaps that had made her feel “uncomfortable” while looking for shoes for her daughter.

In two of the photos, the model can be seen wearing the same long-sleeve swimsuit and bare legs, while the third sees her wearing a crop top and leggings.

“Looking for summer shoes for DD online this morning and came across these pics which made me feel uncomfortable,” she wrote.

“Like an attempt at doing high fashion photography for kids clothes. The poses feel inappropriate for kids this young.”

Many were quick to agree with the original poster, agreeing that the images were inappropriate for a kids clothing campaign.

“Those pictures are completely inappropriate,” one wrote. “I do wonder about the parents who let their kids pose for images like those.”

“All three are a bit crotch-focused to my eye,” agreed another, while a third wrote, “I agree with you, those poses are a bit off.”

However, several mums argued that the snaps were completely innocent and that there was nothing wrong with them.

Commenting on the thread, one said, “They look like most of my childhood snaps from the 80s (with better hair). Not inappropriate or sexualised IMO.”

Agreeing, a second added, “They are just normal photos. Odd that some people are sexualising them.”

“They look causal rather than sexual to me,” added a third.

The Sun has contacted Zara for comment.

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/zara-kids-campaign-ad-slammed-by-mums-as-inappropriate/news-story/fe9c17211378d00c4a75452c36f0055d

Molly Lillard, daughter of Jets great Al Toon, dead in apparent murder-suicide

Molly Lillard, the daughter of New York Jets great Al Toon, was fatally shot Sunday at her Arizona home in an apparent murder-suicide, a report said.

Police believe Lillard’s husband, 36-year-old Royce Lillard III, shot her before turning the gun on himself in their Scottsdale house.

The couple’s 8-month-old child was there at the time and was not injured, police said.

Royce Lillard is suspected of killing his wife sometime before 5 p.m. When police showed up to their residence, he barricaded himself inside.

A SWAT team entered the home at about 10:45 p.m., finding him dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to police.

The couple’s infant is being cared for by the family.

Molly Lillard was a standout volleyball player, both at her Wisconsin high school and later at the University of Michigan, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Her father, Toon, set football records at University of Wisconsin before getting drafted by the Jets.

The wide receiver made it to the Pro Bowl three times in eight years.

https://nypost.com/2021/04/13/molly-lillard-daughter-of-al-toon-dead-in-apparent-murder-suicide/

David Cameron is pictured schmoozing with scandal-hit Lex Greensill in killer Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman's tent - as it's revealed civil servant was allowed to work for finance firm while still in Whitehall

Bill Crothers spent several months as Government procurement head while he was a Greensill board adviser

When he quit to work for the lender full-time he did not have to ask for approval from the watchdog

He later received shares from the controversial firm that could have been worth more than £5million

Boris Johnson pledged that a Greensill investigation he launched this week will have 'carte blanche'

The first photo of David Cameron's trip to Saudi Arabia with Lex Greensill has emerged

The first photo of David Cameron and his financier friend Lex Greensill on their 'desert camping trip' to Saudi Arabia has emerged as the lobbying scandal around the former prime minister continues to spiral.

Dressed in business suits and drinking tea around a campfire, the pair are pictured during their visit to Riyadh in January 2020 when Greensill Capital planned to open an office in the capital.

During the trip, they met Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who has been accused of ordering the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Mr Cameron insisted he raised human rights concerns with the Arab leader.

The photo obtained by the Wall Street Journal appeared as it was revealed one of Mr Cameron's top officials was allowed to work for Greensill Capital while still a civil servant.

Bill Crothers spent several months as Government procurement head and a Greensill board adviser, it emerged last night.

The extraordinary arrangement meant when he quit to work for the lender full-time he did not have to ask approval from the watchdog that monitors the revolving door between Whitehall and business.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9467651/One-David-Camerons-civil-servants-allowed-work-Greensill-Whitehall.html

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Banking Crisis: Fallout from Greensill Financial Collapse Splatters British Government, as Taxpayers Face Big Losses

Downing Street’s dodgy dealings with Citigroup and Greensill show just how far the British government is willing to go to line the pockets of banks and other financial firms while bleeding taxpayers dry.

The collapse of UK-based supply chain finance firm Greensill Capital continues to reverberate. In Germany the private banking association has paid out around €2.7 billion to more than 20,500 Greensill Bank customers as part of its deposit guarantee scheme after the bank collapsed in early March. But the deposits of institutional investors such as other financial institutions, investment firms, and local authorities are not covered. Fifty municipalities are believed to be nursing losses of at least €500 million.

Greensill’s biggest source of funds, Credit Suisse, has seen its share price plunge by almost a quarter. This is due not only to the fallout from Greensill’s collapse but also the impact of losses at its prime brokerage division caused by the stricken U.S. hedge fund Archegos, which are expected to reach €4 billion. The lender has warned of “considerable uncertainty” regarding the valuation of its supply chain finance fund. More than $5 billion of the roughly $10 billion invested in the fund remains outstanding.

Credit Suisse had assured clients in marketing documents that the debt in the supply chain fund was “low risk”. In one factsheet, it also said: “The underlying credit risk of the notes is fully insured by highly rated insurance companies.” At the beginning of March, that turned out not to be true. Some clients whose money remains trapped in the fund have threatened to sue.

Greensill’s biggest client, Anglo-Indian steel magnate Sanjeev Gupta, is on the verge of bankruptcy. Gupta’s GFG Alliance reportedly owes Greensill more than €3 billion. It began defaulting on its obligations after Greensill stopped lending to the group at the beginning of March. At the end of March Gupta requested a £170 million emergency loan from the UK government, which was duly rejected. Greensill’s administrator, Grant Thornton, has been unable to verify invoices underpinning some of the loans to Gupta. Companies listed on the documents denied ever having done business with the metals magnate.

Now the fallout is beginning to splatter the British government, which invited Greensill to participate in its Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CLBILS). This is despite the fact the company:

a) wasn’t a bank; and

b) was quite clearly already in deep financial trouble. Greensill’s participation in CLBILS allowed it to extend even more loans, this time government backed, to Gupta’s empire.

Taxpayers will now probably end up holding the bag for those loans.

Special Treatment, Frantic Lobbying

Greensill Capital was the only non-bank financial firm to administer the emergency coronavirus loan schemes. The Treasury has admitted that Greensill was exempt from the capital adequacy and stress tests that would safeguard the public from risk when using other lenders. The apparent reason for this special treatment was that former UK Prime Minister David Cameron, who had joined Greensill as an advisor in 2018, was frantically lobbying Chancellor of Exhchequer Rishi Sunak to hand government loans to the embattled financial firm even as it spiralled toward bankruptcy.

Cameron is believed to have held share options in Greensill Capital worth tens of millions of pounds. Now they’re worth nothing.

Cameron’s ties with Greensill’s eponymous founder, Lex Greensill, date all the way back to 2011, when Cameron’s then-cabinet secretary, Jeremy Heywood, brought Greensill — then the head of Citi’s supply chain finance division — into 10 Downing Street as a special advisor. Greensill was still on Citi’s payroll when he joined the government. As an expose in The Sunday Times reveals, his brief was to convince ministers and senior civil servants to hire Citi to extend early payment to many of the government’s biggest suppliers.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/fallout-greensill-collapse-splatters-british-government-taxpayers-face-big-losses/5742047