Disaster "Is that stuffed toy in Bondage gear?": Balenciaga children ad leaves internet stunned - Balenciaga has since nuked their account

Luxury fashion brand Balenciaga is raising concern for children’s safety following the release of their latest ad campaign. In the images showcased on the brand’s official website, children can be seen carrying bondage-themed toys. Netizens found the theme “creepy” and “disturbing.”



On November 20, Twitter user @DatCatDer took to their official account to publicize Balenciaga’s latest advertisement. The tweet read:

“Balenciaga using photos of little girls playing with teddy bears dressed in bondage gear on their website. Lovely.”

https://twitter.com/DatCatDer


Along with the tweet, the netizen also attached images of Balenciaga’s website. In one image, a child can be seen standing on a pink bed and holding a teddy bear which is wearing a fishnet top, a collar with a lock, and ankle and wrist restraints. The toy can also be seen wearing a blindfold.

In another image taken from the brand’s gift shop catalog, a different child model can be seen standing on a couch and holding a study bear that is wearing a leather chest harness and collar.

As the tweet amassed traction online, fellow platform user @shoe0nhead shared that the photoshoot included poorly hidden court documents about “virtual child p*rn.” The netizen wrote “normal stuff” as they sarcastically commented on the matter at hand.

Netizens fire at Balenciaga’s photoshoot​

Internet users were appalled after becoming aware of the ad campaign. Many expressed concern as the brand seemed to be promoting child p*rnography. Netizens relentlessly slammed the Paris-headquartered fashion house and endlessly questioned the appropriateness of the ad campaign.

A few tweets read:



Keep Prisons Single Sex USA, a women’s rights campaign group, also tweeted in response to the ad campaign. They said in a tweet:

“This destruction of innocence & normalization of fringe behaviors seems like an effort to make acceptable previously unimaginable scenarios (like men in women’s prisons & shelters / children having “gender identities” / adult-dancing in libraries). None of this is acceptable.”

https://twitter.com/NoXY_USA


After garnering backlash, sources claimed that the brand’s Instagram page limited the ability for users to leave comments under the post. However, since then, the brand has deleted the campaign from its Instagram page and the page only features three other posts.

The brand also recently deleted their Twitter account in protest against Elon Musk’s platform takeover.

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Everything to know about the bear photoshoot​

The accessory (or bear) featured in the fashion house’s campaign is from their Spring 2023 collection. National Geographic photographer Gabriele Galimberti spearheaded the campaign. The photoshoot is an extension of the photographer’s Toy Stories series. According to the brand's official website:

“dozens of Balenciaga products are staged around children dressed in the Balenciaga Kids line. The campaign iterates on the artist’s series Toy Stories, an exploration of what people collect and receive as gifts."

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Galimberti, who reportedly takes portraits of “everyday eccentricities” as per the fashion house, has also continued to share his work from the Toy Series on his official Instagram page. It includes a series of pictures taken of children around the world alongside their favorite toys.

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[AnOminous]

"what a shocking one-off lone wolf incident that only represents the people that worked on this advertisement and no one else!"

Ha ha ha it's so funny because children and bondage ha ha aren't we so puckish and clever and not in the least diddlers!

 

[DeeDee Megadoodoo]

In fifty years there will be documentaries asking how people could have been so inhumane as to build extermination camps for scholars and artists.

 

[Fomo Hoire]

why is pedophilia so damn prevalent in the elites? why do they feel they have to shove it into everything? there are so many fetishes yet they always seem to default to pedophilia.

Maybe they've already been through all the other fetishes, and keep escalating in search of a higher high. The rich could still go through cosplay and sex dungeons and real dolls and sybians and whatever else, and they do it faster than normal degenerates because they don't need to save up for a big purchase. So they get bored (desensitized) and move on. But then eventually they reach something they can't escalate from, and that's where they all catch up with eachother...

 

[Bland Crumbs]

Nah. I'm tired of giving them the benefit of the doubt.

It's always the same. The photos of kids with sexualized context isn't low key wank material but artistic. Our fashion lines of slutwear for teens and preteens is just keeping up with the trends. Drag isn't grooming its teaching them to be fabulous.

Ignore how much we influence and direct sexualized fashion to kids. Ignore how other prominent individuals in our field get busted for sex trafficking. Ignore the decades of abuse.

I agree with the Moon Philosophy: If someone tells you they are a pedophile believe them.

 

[Super Guido]

Nah. I'm tired of giving them the benefit of the doubt.

It's always the same. The photos of kids with sexualized context isn't low key wank material but artistic. Our fashion lines of slutwear for teens and preteens is just keeping up with the trends. Drag isn't grooming its teaching them to be fabulous.

Ignore how much we influence and direct sexualized fashion to kids. Ignore how other prominent individuals in our field get busted for sex trafficking. Ignore the decades of abuse.

Yeah, I feel like when it comes to pedophilia, most courts aren't gonna take the "joke's on you I'm just PRETENDING to be a nonce" excuse. Not for the average person, at least.

Neon-colored stuff is harmlessly garish as long as it's not being shoved up a child's ass or something insane like that. I've always found dayglo clothing to be amusing, but nobody seriously finds pedophilia amusing unless they themselves are one.

 

[Fomo Hoire]

Yeah, I feel like when it comes to pedophilia, most courts aren't gonna take the "joke's on you I'm just PRETENDING to be a nonce" excuse. Not for the average person, at least.

Reminder that AJ Delaurio actually attempted this in court under oath and with penalty of perjury. He was even given the chance to review the transcript and correct any places he felt he was misrepresented.

Sadly I can't find the part where he was forced to acknowledge that he declined to correct himself, but I swear it happened and it was glorious.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Ah, another classic in the vein of the Auschwitz pajama top and the Coolest Monkey in the Jungle.

There was nothing wrong with "Coolest Monkey in the Jungle", it was the reaction.

"Oh, so you're implying that black people are primates, huh? I'll you show YOU who's an uncivilized subhuman!"

 

[JamusActimus]

Reminder that AJ Delaurio actually attempted this in court under oath and with penalty of perjury. He was even given the chance to review the transcript and correct any places he felt he was misrepresented.

Sadly I can't find the part where he was forced to acknowledge that he declined to correct himself, but I swear it happened and it was glorious.

On October 4, 2012, Daulerio posted a short clip of Hulk Hogan and Heather Clem, the estranged wife of Todd Alan Clem, having sex.[6] Hogan sent Gawker a cease-and-desist order to take the video down, but site founder Nick Denton refused. Denton cited the First Amendment and argued the accompanying commentary had news value. Judge Pamela Campbell issued an injunction ordering Gawker to take down the clip.[7] In April 2013, Gawker wrote, "A judge told us to take down our Hulk Hogan sex tape post. We won't."[8][9]

Hogan successfully sued Gawker and Daulerio for $115 million. During the trial, the jury was shown a taped deposition where Daulerio said that he would only consider a celebrity sex tape non-newsworthy if the subject was a child under the age of four.[10] He later told the court he was being flippant in his response.[11]

The Small Bow​

 

[Fomo Hoire]

@JamusActimus that's the trial, but I wanted to find the cross examination after that one. The one where the opposing lawyer made him admit he was given the opportunity to correct the record and he chose to let it stand, therefore it is fair to take those statements as fact.

 

[Starved Artist]

It's a good thing they dropped Kanye, having an antisemetic negro would really hurt their child grooming campaign.

 

[Cheesegirl78]

Balenciaga went from a beautiful fashion house to making stuff that Tess Holliday and Jeffree Starr buy up.

 

[Ita Mori]

Balenciaga is everything the left and right hate about neoliberal bougies and their urban bugmen who aspire to join their ranks.

Anyone to the left or right of Clintonites should be rallying to murder their CEOs in the streets.

 

[AnOminous]

Reminder that AJ Delaurio actually attempted this in court under oath and with penalty of perjury. He was even given the chance to review the transcript and correct any places he felt he was misrepresented.

Sadly I can't find the part where he was forced to acknowledge that he declined to correct himself, but I swear it happened and it was glorious.

This is an example of exactly what you don't do in front of a jury, especially when it's a Florida jury and you're a New York hipster faggot. You do not make jokes about child molestation when the judge and jury both obviously hate your guts already and are looking at you like you're some sort of insect.

Twelve people just got dragged out of their lives for no pay to decide your fate and you're acting like it's some big fucking joke.

Guaranteed they will stick it to you as hard as they can, which is exactly what they did.

 

[Netizennameless]

There was nothing wrong with "Coolest Monkey in the Jungle", it was the reaction.

"Oh, so you're implying that black people are primates, huh? I'll you show YOU who's an uncivilized subhuman!"

to add a dose of pure autism to this, it is hot in the jungle and so "coolest monkey in the jungle" is a legit flex for monkeys. A lot of racists outed themselves though by jumping to conclusions about what everyone else thinks.

 

[BelUwUga]

The lads at /r/conspiracy had an interesting find.(Archive) Here's what the doc on the table references:

 

[Hitman One]

Kill all paedophiles.

 

[ZazietheBeast]

why is pedophilia so damn prevalent in the elites? why do they feel they have to shove it into everything? there are so many fetishes yet they always seem to default to pedophilia.

Because they are burnouts who are unable to process emotion thanks to all their needs being met. And as they can no longer enjoy regular desires, they seek higher (or darker) ones instead to feel something. So shit eating clubs, animal fucking, everything sordid and forbidden is their craving. This observable in locations frequented by the globohomo nobility.

Also, this has happened all throughout history with the nobility. Hence the joke, "The Aristocrats".

 

[Ebonic Tutor]

So is this some sort of setup to fuck with Ye is my next question?

 

[pikachudidnothingwrong]

I seriously hope this was a retarded attempt at shock advertising!

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Here's a bigger version of the picture on the left. I'm trying to figure out if there's anything else "weird" here. There's another stuffed animal with similar accessories and the stripings of a skunk, and some chain-themed accessories but I can't tell much of anything else.

Stuff on the bed:
- A leash (hopefully for a dog) designed like measuring tape
- A water bottle designed as a flask
- Sunglasses
- A belt and buckle
- Assorted metal baubles that I can't see clearly
- I have no idea what the fluffy white thing is with a chain
- Purses, shoes, other accessories
- I don't know what the black thing is just below the plaid handbag

Other stuff:
I know it's probably a studio, but none of this actually looks like a little girl's room, which adds to the uncanny valley effect. The stuff on the bedside table is too new. The pink storage containers are too high up. The moon phases and black dragon décor is kind of offputting. And the stuff to the left has a hanging ivy plant, various thick books, and some sort of black sticks in a jar. I mean, I seem to remember that IKEA puts stuff in the displays that look like it should actually belong (children's books in childrens' rooms, for example) but I see none of that here.