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Wacoal Thailand styled a lingerie tie-in shoot in school uniforms — and pulled it fast
Wacoal Thailand's lingerie tie-in with a school-set Netflix series was promoted with models in school-style uniforms. Wacoal dropped the campaign within days.
Wacoal · 2025-03-08
What happened
In early March 2025, Wacoal Thailand released a small fashion collection — bras, underwear and casual shirts — tied to the Netflix series 'Girl From Nowhere: The Reset,' a show set inside Thai high schools.
Promotional images for the collaboration showed models in school-style uniforms, echoing the series' setting. Because the show itself is set among students, viewers online said the styling read as sexualizing the school-uniform imagery rather than simply referencing the series.
On 8 March 2025, Wacoal Thailand announced it was withdrawing the advertisement and ending the collaboration, confirming the campaign materials would no longer run. The withdrawal statement itself drew further criticism from commentators who felt it did not fully address why the styling choice had been made in the first place.
Why it happened
- A tie-in campaign inherits the associations of the property it's tied to — a series set in high schools carries weight a generic shoot doesn't, and the uniform styling made that literal.
- Speed limited the damage but didn't resolve the underlying question — pulling the campaign within days stopped the ad from spreading further without explaining how the styling was approved.
- A withdrawal statement that doesn't name what was wrong with the original choice leaves the same judgment gap open for the next campaign — critics read the brevity as avoidance, not resolution.
The lesson
Wacoal Thailand's lingerie tie-in used school-uniform styling for a series set in high schools. The backlash was immediate, and the campaign was gone within a week.
Aftermath
Wacoal Thailand ended the collaboration and removed the promotional materials; the brand did not detail how the styling was approved in the first place.
Sources
- "It's weird" - Girl From Nowhere: The Reset sparks fan backlash over lingerie brand collab featuring models in school uniforms — Sportskeeda
- Thai Series Girl From Nowhere's Lingerie Collaboration Sparks Online Fury Over 'Creepy' Student Uniforms — Hauterrfly
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