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Benetton is known for its sports sponsorships, and for its "United Colors" advertising campaign. In 1982, Benetton hired Oliviero Toscani as creative director, which led to a change in advertising focus towards raising awareness for various issues worldwide. [14] In 1984, Toscani photographed the first multiracial ad for the brand. [3]
Colors (stylised as COLORS) was a quarterly print magazine about 'the rest of the world' funded and published by the Italian Benetton clothing company. [1] Founded in 1991 "as a way of communicating the intelligence of the Benetton brand to an extremely sophisticated consumer", [2] it was published worldwide in multiple bilingual editions.
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Luciano Benetton was born on 13 May 1935 in Treviso. [2] His father had a small business and following his death, [3] Benetton dropped out of school at the age of 14 to work in a clothing shop. [2] He saved money to buy a $200 knitting machine and teamed up with his sister to produce a collection of twenty pieces of yellow, green and pale blue ...
In 2012, Frare told Life that David's father Bill Kirby expressed the family's feelings on the use of the picture by United Colors of Benetton when he told Frare, "Listen, Therese. Benetton didn't use us, or exploit us. We used them. Because of them, your photo was seen all over the world, and that's exactly what David wanted." [8]
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In the early 1990s, Toscani co-founded the magazine Colors (also owned by Benetton) with American graphic designer Tibor Kalman. With the tagline "a magazine about the rest of the world", Colors built on the multiculturalism prevalent at that time and in Benetton's ad campaigns, while remaining editorially independent from the group.