Outrage videos and boycott calls from angry customers who have turned their backs on luxury fashion brand Balenciaga. Influencer Mike Chabot (26) writes on Tiktok that he “can’t believe” this won’t cause a major scandal. It’s “terrible” that the fashion house even thinks it’s okay to use child pornography for fashion. I’ll never buy anything from them again.” And in front of the camera, the men’s lifestyle coach cuts a pair of Balenciagas.
Is the calculation on everyone’s lips or has it gotten out of control? Balenciaga has since apologized for the campaign that showed children wearing the bondage toys. Creative director Demna Gvasalia (41) has expressed regret on Instagram for showing kids stuffed animals in their nursery – stuffed animals in a BDSM harness – note.
A motif in another spring 2023 campaign that Balenciaga wants to advertise with sporting goods manufacturer Adidas even includes a photocopy of an excerpt from a court order on child pornography! Everything did not seem random. The shitstorm got in the way. Celebrities also opened fire against the noble label.
“lynching law”?
The luxury group was shocked, then stooped away. A few days after the photos were posted on his website, Balenciaga again removed the photos and announced that legal action would be taken against everyone on the set. The Parisian fashion company is said to have filed a $25 million lawsuit against the makers of the campaign in the New York Supreme Court on Friday.
Italian photographer Gabriele Galimberti, 45, who took pictures of teddy bears, apparently received hundreds of hate emails. He felt compelled to make an “explanation”. Galimberti writes that he is “in no way competent” to “select neither products, nor models, nor combinations thereof”. twitter. It just did its job – to “light up the given scene and take pictures in my own way”.
Then the Italian replies: he suspects that anyone with a pedophile inclination on the Internet “has very easy access to images, unfortunately completely different from mine, with absolutely clear content in their gruesome content. Lynches like this target the wrong targets and distract from the real problem, the criminals.” (cut)