Images from Balenciaga's latest holiday campaign have been described as "disturbing" and "child exploiting". Granary, which was founded by Central Saint Martins students to represent talent in the fashion industry, condemned Balenciaga's response. In other Balenciaga news, the fashion brand created an episode of The Simpsons to showcase its SS22 collection. Following swift backlash (we'll get into that below), Balenciaga removed the photos from all platforms. Balenciaga on a mad one,” TikTok content creator and music producer Marc Baigent captionedthe allegedly incriminating clip, which claims to expose “satanic cult” symbolism using children as pawns.

Notably in that stack of books is a title celebrating Belgian painter Michaël Borremans, whose works frequently feature children. Olga Liriano, who has spent years in the fashion industry as a model booker, photo director and top magazine editor, said it is ridiculous to think Demna and the top echelon at Balenciaga didn’t know what the campaigns were going to look like once they were photographed. Twitter users have pointed out the one document appears to be an excerpt from a Supreme Court case, US v. The 2002 case concluded that the Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996 (CPPA) violated free speech. Nicole Kidman in Balenciaga’s Garde Robe campaign, which included an image featuring paperwork referencing a case about child sexual abuse.Balenciaga insists the brand's designs have never been inspired by Borremans, and that the two have no connection.

To finish, Demna sent out a dress made from cut-up parts of black Balenciaga Lariat bags, a make-do-and-mend masterpiece that also pointed up our nasty overconsumption habits.

On November 21, Balenciaga released images from its 2023 Garde-Robe advertising campaign, which cast Nicole Kidman, Isabelle Huppert, and Bella Hadid in seemingly innocuous office settings. none of the suggestions are factual,' Robin Meason, Balenciaga's global PR director, told DailyMail.

Photos from scrapped Balenciaga campaign feature book by artist whose works include castrated toddlers.

When snow melts it turns to mud, and there were literally tons of mud today, piled up at the sides of the stadium space, and dug out like bomb craters in the center, staged by the Spanish artist Santiago Sierra. His 2017/2018 series, Fire from the Sun, shows a group of toddlers, some of them with blood staining their skin, in sinister composition.

Brand ambassador Kim Kardashian broke her silence on the issue earlier on Monday when she posted a statement to her Instagram and Twitter. Subscribe to our newsletter to get the breaking news, eye-opening interviews, and incisive critical takes that drive the conversation forward. The ads were met with criticisms and allegations of normalizing sexual fetishization and abuse of children, and eagle-eyed social media watchdogs pointed outthat another ad showed what appeared to be legal documents from a Supreme Court case that ruled on federal laws regarding child pornography. Books by Matthew Barney and Michaël Borremans appear in the back of ad image that some say promotes child exploitation. More photographs from an axed Balenciaga campaign are being questioned today over the prominence of a book which celebrates a Belgian artist whose work includes depictions of castrated toddlers.Vogue may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. Balenciaga said the “inclusion of these unapproved documents” in the ad was due to “reckless negligence. The David Zwirner gallery where Borremans' "Fire from the Sun" has been shown described his paintings as "toddlers engaged in playful but mysterious acts with sinister overtones and insinuations of violence. Demna has had his own experience of war—he fled Georgia with his family when he was a young boy of 10. Photos from the brand’s now-canceled spring 2023 ad campaign show French actress Isabelle Huppert posed in a Manhattan office with a stack of books behind her.