Balenciaga is back in the news and not because of the eccentric creations that Demna Gvasalia has accustomed us to, like her bag made from a bag of potato chips. On this occasion, the firm of Spanish origin has gone too far. We are not referring to the images of the spring-summer 2023 collection in which Nicole Kidman appears spectacular as the brand’s new muse, but to the content of the photographs of the Christmas campaign.
In the photographs of the discord, taken by the Italian Gabriele Galimberti, boys and girls appear with teddy bears dressed in chains and harnesses, habitual objects in sadomasochistic practices. These are bags that belong to his spring-summer 2023 collection.
Although this alone has been enough to set off all the alarms, as soon as the controversy has reached Twitter, users have found even more problematic details. And it is that @ shoe0nhead has noticed that in one of the images of the Balenciaga x Adidas capsule collection, the emblematic bag of the collaboration appeared on the ruling papers for a federal law against child pornography.
the brand “Balenciaga” just did a uh….. interesting… photoshoot for their new products recently which included a very purposely poorly hidden court document about ‘virtual child porn’
normal stuff pic.twitter.com/zjMN5WhZ0s
— shoe (@shoe0nhead) November 21, 2022
This, above all, is the image that has ignited the networks and that has forced the fashion firm to ask public apology for “for showing disturbing documents”. In the official statement they say that these are “items not approved for the spring 23 campaign photo session” and that they plan to take legal action “against the parties responsible for the creation of the set.” All this, in addition to condemning “firmly the abuse of children in any of its forms.”
Photos | Balenciaga
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