Why Did Balenciaga Get Such An Easy Pass For One The Most Putrid Displays Of Pedophilia?
Even if celebrities like Kim Kardashian, Usher, Ice Spice, Salma Hayek, and Emily Ratajkowski wear, support and model Balenciaga, it’s still a faceless brand. An iconic fashion brand. It’s foreign and it has no real figurehead that anyone outside of the fashion world knows. And they’re so big that it’s easy to displace blame. To shun a creative choice. The sick director. The genius creative visionary that went too far. But they blamed the subliminal inclusion of a print out of a SCOTUS ruling on child porn on a production company, North Six.
All images below are from the last few campaigns and within 18 months of the scandal.
Relatively no hesitation in getting right back after it at full force. Unpunished.
This is from the Unsettling Things article here: unsettlingthings.com/the-balenciaga-child-abuse-scandal-doesnt-end-with-the-bondage-bears-shoot
Swag bags full of blood splattered baby supplies just appeared on Balenciaga’s hell-scape fashion pit runway back in October 2022. In the Balenciaga S23 fashion show, models carried eerily realistic baby dolls and Balenciaga shopping bags. Inside those bags was yet another horror show.
Inside the bags (given out after the show) were bloody baby items. All of which had blood splattered on them. Employees filled Balenciaga bags with baby items and sprayed a red blood-like substance all over them.
Blood splattered cloth diapers, blankets, pacifiers, and a little plush toy. All for the creepy, extraordinarily realistic baby dolls. So much for the brand’s claims to, “… strongly condemn abuse of children in any form. We stand for children’s safety and well-being.”
They paraded those bags of bloody baby items across the runway.
They shove it in everyone’s faces, yet, no one wants to believe it’s real. So it continues and by not objecting, they have your consent. They will always tell you. It’s part of their religious doctrine. They believe this makes them free of any karmic retribution.
They aren’t sorry about the ‘disturbing imagery‘. They’re sorry they got caught!
As photo director, fashion model booker, and top magazine editor, Olga Liriano pointed out to the New York Post. “Oh please,” Liriano said. “Demna doesn’t put out one image that he hasn’t approved. Demna is not only the creative director, he’s driving all the imagery behind the campaigns. To blame a production company is nuts.” There’s no denying Demna had final say. It’s curious that the entire brand’s instinct was to blame a third party production company and pretend the creative director had nothing to do with directing the creativity of these shoots. This isn’t an isolated incident, it’s a recurring pattern with Demna. It’s a pattern with Balenciaga since falling under the ownership of the Kering Group.
Lotta Volkova
One of the so-called genius creatives that has received an overdue internet callout for some of the themes in her work. She is one of Balenciaga’s top collaborators and these are all from her instagram.
Too many coincidences & connections
Not only did Balenciaga immediately recover, but they never had a true hiccup. Within less than a year, the biggest names in the biz were back to wearing their clothes and the brand’s name barely has an asterisk. In no time at all. Shane Gillis was cancelled longer.
Fuck that.
In case you didn’t love that the original article was from a random blog:
The backlash concerns two separate ad campaigns. One concerns the Garde Robe photoshoot, in which actors Nicole Kidman and Isabelle Huppert posed in Manhattan offices. Keen-eyed viewers spotted paperwork on a desk under a £2,800 handbag from a US supreme court case interrogating whether child sexual abuse imagery legislation curtails freedom of speech rights.
Balenciaga said all the items in the shoot “were provided by third parties that confirmed in writing that these props were fake office documents. They turned out to be real legal papers most likely coming from the filming of a television drama.”
In the background of another shot is a coffee table book of the work of artist Michaël Borremans, whose “Fire from the Sun” paintings include images of naked toddlers engaged in what the gallerist David Zwirner describes as “playful but mysterious acts with sinister overtones”.
The company is now suing Nicholas Des Jardins and North Six, the designer and producers of the shoot respectively, alleging “inexplicable acts and omissions” that were “malevolent or, at the very least, extraordinarily reckless”.
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