To ask your thoughts on the Balenciaga controversy?

[outpatient]

There quite possibly could be a thread about this already apologies if so I haven't checked but wandering your opinions on this.

Do you buy/wear Balenciaga and if so will you stop in light of this this?

For those who may be unaware they had two recent ad campaigns, quoted from the newspaper;

Onee of the ads, the designer’s gift collection campaign, featured children posing with the brand’s teddy bear purses, which critics pointed out appear to be wearing BDSM and bondage-inspired accessories.

The second ad under scrutiny is Balenciaga’s Spring 2023 campaign, for its use of a printout of a Supreme Court decision on child pornography.

It is in most schools now. So good luck with keeping it away from kids.

This.

Language is so important.

I also despise the phrase 'underage girls'. Children. They are children.

The campaign is vile. As PPs have already said - so many people would have signed this off. The court papers 'excuse' does not stand when there are other 'co-incidences' too (the book about Michael Borremans).

Those poor, poor children in those images. Right now, they are {thankfully) far too young to realise the implications of those images, but sadly those images are in the public domain, and have been widely shared (I may be wrong here, but I believe in one (now deleted) Instagram post, the photographer even mentioned one of the children by their first name). It is likely that one day the children will grow older, and will become aware of these images, and they will understand what they were meant to mean, and the message the images portray. I sincerely hope that these children will be protected.

😂😂what a shame

Utterly revolting - I can’t believe more celebrities aren’t speaking - their Silence is defeaning

Yes it's madness isn't it - I don't actually get why they're not though they don't all have brand deals with Balenciaga surely?

I don't get why such silence it's really weird