***UPDATE Balenciaga issued a non-apology because someone approved the pictures and put them in the campaign.
Luxury brand Balenciaga featured a photo shoot with toddlers surrounded by sex toys and holding toys wrapped in bondage.
I have no words. Why anyone would think this is okay even if the toddlers do not know anything about the items?
I honestly only knew of the brand because it was the last thing Myrtle said in American Horror Story: Apocalypse.
It looks like Balenciaga took down the pictures. I don’t know where the company would have put it on the webpage or if it belonged to a specific campaign.
From Fox News:
The photographer for the ad campaign, Gabriele Galimberti, said the images were part of a project series called “Toy Stories,” according to his Instagram page. The images, which now appear to be mostly scrubbed from the global brand’s website, sparked outrage from conservative activists.Penny Nance, CEO of Concerned Women for America, a conservative women’s rights group, called the images “exploitive propaganda.””This is not about them being provocative and getting attention,” Nance said in an interview with Fox News Digital. “The entire campaign sexualizes children, period. It is child exploitation, period. And it feeds and normalizes a culture that is dark and depraved.”
I looked at Galimberti’s Instagram page and could not find the photos.
Balenciaga left Twitter over Elon Musk’s takeover. It also deleted its posts on Instagram. Mary Morgan, the host of Pop Culture Crisis on YouTube, finds it suspicious:
“Balenciaga recently dropped off of Twitter, and it’s highly suspicious as they just dropped an ad campaign featuring children holding teddy bears in bondage gear and a poorly hidden court document about ‘virtual child p—,’” she wrote to Fox News Digital. “The Balenciaga Instagram account has deleted all posts as well. When a big tech platform finally enforces their rules against the exploitation of children (even under the guise of ‘art’), pay close attention to the brands or individuals who make haste toward the exit.”
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