London, Sept 7 (ANI): A hair salon in Canada has been attacked and its owners sent death threats following an ad campaign featuring a model posing as a domestic violence victim, to highlight how their services could make even a beaten woman look beautiful.
Edmonton business Fluid Salon said they had made her the "hottest battered woman" ever and used the tagline "Look good in all you do".
The image has swept across the internet and led to the premises being vandalised with the words in pink and purple paint 'This is art that is wrongly named violence' and 'That was violence wrongly named art'.
"Somebody had spilled paint and spray painted, and glued offensive messages to the windows of the salon," the Daily Mail quoted Edmonton sergeant Rick Evans as saying.
He added that the business has been receiving hate mail and death threats.
Meanwhile, salon owner Sarah Cameron said she doesn't see anything offensive in the ads, but considers them art.
"It might strike a chord, but as the way our society and community is getting, we keep tailoring everything because everyone is getting so sensitive," she said.
"Anyone who has a connection or a story behind anything can be upset or have an opinion. We are not trying to attack anyone."
"We wanted to push limits. You see the picture, you think it's a nice photo and then you see the controversy.
"We just like art, and it's also objective," she added.
But campaigners have reacted furiously to the advert, which is one of six, saying that it glorified violence against women. (ANI)
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