A more drastic example illustrates how advertising itself can occasionally lead to an unintended brand meaning. In the early 1990s, not long after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, an international brand of antiperspirant was launched in Eastern Europe. The adver¬tising featured tennis player Steffi Graf, demonstrating how effective the product was even for someone engaging in strenuous physical activity. Use of antiperspirant did not enjoy the same penetration levels in Eastern Europe as it did in the West, and the commercial was interpreted quite literally. The brand quickly came to signify a way of preventing perspiration specifically while playing sports until appropriate measures were taken to correct the misapprehension.