In September 2011 when the don't ask, don't tell law was finally removed by President Barack Obama, Renzo Rosso, the founder and president of Diesel, who originally had approved and pushed for the advertisement, said "16 years ago people wouldn't stop complaining about this ad. In a long article published by frieze in 1996, the advertisement was credited for its "overarching tone of heavy-handed humor and sarcasm". government to ban openly gay, lesbian, or bisexual persons from military service. Much of its controversy was due it being published at the height of the don't ask, don't tell debates in United States, which had led to the U.S. It was staged at the peace celebration of World War II and became one of the first public advertisements showing a gay or lesbian couple kissing.
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They are full of juicy life." In 1995 David LaChapelle shot the famous 'kissing sailors' advertisement for Diesel. LaChapelle's work has been called "meticulously created in a high-gloss, color-popping, hyper-realistic style", and his photos are known to, "crackle with subversive – or at least hilarious – ideas, rude energy and laughter. Just make sure everybody looks good." LaChapelle's images subsequently appeared on the covers and pages of magazines such as Details, GQ, i-D, The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, The Face, Vanity Fair, Vogue Italia, and Vogue Paris. Warhol reportedly told LaChapelle "Do whatever you want. When LaChapelle was 17 years old, he met Andy Warhol, who hired him as a photographer for Interview while he was still in high school. After people from Interview magazine saw his work exhibited, LaChapelle was offered work with the magazine. LaChapelle was affiliated in the 1980s with 303 Gallery which also exhibited artists such as Doug Ait. Photographic career Early fine-art photography LaChapelle credits his mother for influencing his art direction in the way she set up scenes for family photos in his youth. His first photograph was of his mother Helga on a family vacation in Puerto Rico. Eventually he returned to North Carolina to enroll in the North Carolina School of the Arts.
When he was 15, he ran away from home to become a busboy at Studio 54 in New York City. He was bullied in his North Carolina school for his sexuality. Then he moved to Raleigh, North Carolina, with his family, where they lived until he was 14, before moving back to Fairfield, Connecticut. He has said to have loved the public schools in Connecticut and thrived in their art program as a child and teenager, although he struggled with bullying growing up. His family lived in Hartford until he was 9. His mother was a refugee from Lithuania who arrived at Ellis Island in the early 1960s. David LaChapelle was born in Hartford, Connecticut to Philip and Helga LaChapelle he has a sister Sonja and a brother Philip.
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