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Balenciaga apologises for bondage bear advert involving child

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PandorasMailbox · 23/11/2022 06:34

They're also taking legal action against its creator

What I want to know is who the hell signed it off and why were the parents happy to let it go ahead?

I've included the images for anyone who hasn't seen them.

Balenciaga apologises for bondage bear advert involving child
Balenciaga apologises for bondage bear advert involving child
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PandorasMailbox · 23/11/2022 06:48

Soontobe60 · 23/11/2022 06:43

No, that’s not good enough. Advertising campaigns are not just something that happen in the spur of the moment. The theme / content isn’t just down to 1 person. There would have been a team involved before the shoot, the models booked well in advance, the models would have had chaperones, the props would need to have been acquired.
So what has actually happened is that they have been called out for their extremely dodgy campaign and are now backtracking rapidly for damage limitation. There should be an independent investigation into how this child was placed in such a shocking situation.
Also, please don’t anyone forward the photos - this child needs to be protected, not have her image plastered all over the internet.

In hindsight, I should have covered her face.

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Magentax · 23/11/2022 06:47

Also, please don’t anyone forward the photos - this child needs to be protected, not have her image plastered all over the internet.

Absolutely. This is about the fourth or fifth time it’s been posted on mumsnet. If you come across an image you think exploits a child you shouldn’t be gleefully trying to increase the numbers who see it FFS.

BedTaker · 23/11/2022 06:47

Surely this comes under child abuse?

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PandorasMailbox · 23/11/2022 06:46

Magentax · 23/11/2022 06:40

Why have you included the offensive images?

So that people can have some context as not everyone would be aware of the problem.

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MichelleScarn · 23/11/2022 06:46

Does one of the bears not also look like it's got black eyes?!

Clymene · 23/11/2022 06:44

They deleted the images way before they issued an apology. They also had a photo of a woman made up to look like she'd been assaulted holding one of those bears.

Horrible.

What with them and Coach's disgusting misogynist model spitting and hurling abuse at women in New York, it reminds me how much fashion designers hate their customers.

FiveMins · 23/11/2022 06:44

Well it's worked as a campaign as because of you putting the name of the company in the thread title I now know the name of this company I have never heard of before
I have also seen these sick paedophilic images. I would ask for thread ro be removed.

Soontobe60 · 23/11/2022 06:43

No, that’s not good enough. Advertising campaigns are not just something that happen in the spur of the moment. The theme / content isn’t just down to 1 person. There would have been a team involved before the shoot, the models booked well in advance, the models would have had chaperones, the props would need to have been acquired.
So what has actually happened is that they have been called out for their extremely dodgy campaign and are now backtracking rapidly for damage limitation. There should be an independent investigation into how this child was placed in such a shocking situation.
Also, please don’t anyone forward the photos - this child needs to be protected, not have her image plastered all over the internet.

Magentax · 23/11/2022 06:40

Why have you included the offensive images?

BedTaker · 23/11/2022 06:39

Omg!!!

ThePoshUns · 23/11/2022 06:37

Good. The images were disturbing. What on earth were they thinking?