Adventures in Advertising

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Natty menswear brand Duncan Quinn's last ad campaign featured a man strangling a lingerie-clad woman with a tie on the hood of a car. Their new ad is a little less, ah, edgy: It's just a man in a suit holding a sawed-off. Copyranter: "Women, he rapes and asphyxiates. Men, he simply blows away with a sawed-off shotgun. Bespoke gangsta!" [Copyranter]