Why Adidas' Philippine Flag jacket design was banned

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8491

SECTION 34. It shall be prohibited:
a) To mutilate, deface, defile, trample on or cast contempt or commit any act or omission casting dishonor or ridicule upon the flag or over its surface;

b) To dip the flag to any person or object by way of compliment or salute;

c) To use the flag:

1. As a drapery, festoon, tablecloth;
   
2. As covering for ceilings, walls, statues or other objects;
   
3. As a pennant in the hood, side, back and top of motor vehicles;
   
4. As a staff or whip;
   
5. For unveiling monuments or statues; and
   
6. As trademarks, or for industrial, commercial or agricultural labels or designs.
   
   

d) To display the flag:

1. Under any painting or picture;
   
2. Horizontally face-up. It shall always be hoisted aloft and be allowed to fall freely;
   
3. Below any platform; or
   
4. In discotheques, cockpits, night and day clubs, casinos, gambling joints and places of vice or where frivolity prevails.
   

e) To wear the flag in whole or in part as a costume or uniform;
f) To add any word, figure, mark, picture, design, drawings, advertisement, or imprint of any nature on the flag;
g) To print, paint or attach representation of the flag on handkerchiefs, napkins, cushions, and other articles of merchandise;
h) To display in public any foreign flag, except in embassies and other diplomatic establishments, and in offices of international organizations;
i) To use, display or be part of any advertisement or infomercial; and
j) To display the flag in front of buildings or offices occupied by aliens.