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Diesel features same-sex wedding in campaign ‘Make Love Not Walls’

clothing brand gets political

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9 years ago

February 14, 2017

Mariah Cooper

(Screenshot via YouTube.)

Diesel brought romance and politics into its new ad campaign “Make Love Not Walls” for its spring 2017 collection.

In a short film directed by David LaChapelle, a man tries to reach a group of people on the other side of a wall. The group jumps over the wall and breaks through it creating a heart-shaped hole. Everyone joins together to celebrate the wedding of two men and ends with the slogan “Make Love Not Walls.”

Watch below.

We’re with cupid. #MakeLoveNotWalls #Diesel #SS17 https://t.co/TaL91gUblW pic.twitter.com/aP9bKJuQtN

— Diesel (@DIESEL) February 14, 2017

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