Saturday, January 05, 2008

Belgium: Burka advertising

Belgian P Magazine came up with several innovative ways to advertise its series of articles about women in Afghanistan.

One was to print up burka-bags:



The magazine also let its journalist walk the streets of Knokke, a coastal town, clad with a burka, gathering up reactions:




And later used it to advertise their reports, showing that what is common in one part of the word, is considered quite unusual in another:




Sources: P-Magazine (Dutch), Coloribus (English)