{"id":1748720,"date":"2022-11-22T21:18:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T02:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1748720"},"modified":"2022-11-22T21:18:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T02:18:06","slug":"balenciaga-apologizes-for-advertisement-showcasing-minors-holding-bdsm-teddy-bear-purses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/balenciaga-apologizes-for-advertisement-showcasing-minors-holding-bdsm-teddy-bear-purses\/","title":{"rendered":"Balenciaga Apologizes For Advertisement Showcasing Minors Holding BDSM Teddy Bear Purses"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbalenciaga-apologizes-for-advertisement-showcasing-minors-holding-bdsm-teddy-bear-purses%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1748720&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>French fashion brand Balenciaga apologized Tuesday after facing backlash over a recent advertisement that showed young children holding teddy bear purses dressed in bondage attire.<\/p>\n<p>The brand, which celebrities like Kim Kardashian often wear, displayed images on its website earlier this week as part of its \u201cToy Stories\u201d campaign. The images showed child models posing with the brand\u2019s teddy bear handbags, with the bears dressed in BDSM gear from its Paris Fashion Week Spring\/Summer 2023 collection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe sincerely apologize for any offense our holiday campaign may have caused,\u201d the company wrote in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/balenciaga\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> story. \u201cOur plush bear bags should not have been featured with children in this campaign. We have immediately removed the campaign from all platforms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Balenciaga debuted the handbag line last October at the runway show in Paris, where models walked the catwalk with bruised faces and bloody noses carrying the teddy bears.<\/p>\n<p>Social media users erupted in outrage on Monday over the fashion brand\u2019s latest advertisement, which showed plush toys dressed in BDSM gear, including fishnet tops, studded leather harnesses, and collars with locks, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/fashion\/balenciaga-ad-teddy-bear-bondage-b2230970.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Independent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Landon Starbuck, the founder of the non-profit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freedomforever.us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Freedom Forever<\/a>, which advocates protecting children from abuse, trafficking, and exploitation, called the campaign \u201cabsolutely demonic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBalenciaga is fetishizing children by having them model with sexual BDSM paraphernalia,\u201d Starbuck wrote on Twitter. \u201cThey\u2019re participating in a bigger campaign making it fashionable to destroy the innocence of children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is absolutely demonic. Balenciaga is fetishizing children by having them model with sexual bdsm paraphernalia. They\u2019re participating in a bigger campaign, making it fashionable to destroy the innocence of children. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CAXMQTMpri\">pic.twitter.com\/CAXMQTMpri<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Landon Starbuck (@LandonStarbuck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LandonStarbuck\/status\/1594552641077624833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to The Independent, in one of the images are documents from a 2008 Supreme Court opinion, <em>United States vs. Williams<\/em> \u2014 a federal statute prohibiting the \u201cpandering\u201d of child pornography, which reaffirmed the PROTECT Act, a federal law that increased penalties for sexual exploitation and other abuse of children.<\/p>\n<p>Although some on social media believe the documents were from the 2002 Supreme Court case <em>Ashcroft vs. Free Speech Coalition<\/em>, in which justices struck down a portion of the Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996 that allowed virtual child pornography to be considered protected speech.<\/p>\n<p>Balenciaga further apologized for including the court documents in the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe apologize for displaying unsettling documents in our campaign,\u201d the company said. \u201cWe take this matter very seriously and are taking legal action against the parties responsible for creating the set and including unapproved items for our Spring \u201923 campaign photoshoot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe strongly condemn the abuse of children in any form,\u201d they continued. \u201cWe stand for children safety and well-being.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Starbuck, who further condemned the company for \u201cparading it in our faces,\u201d in reference to the documents, told The Daily Wire that her non-profit is putting out a call to action in response to Balenciaga\u2019s apology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re calling not just on Balenciaga but on their parent group Kering to provide the public with appropriate accountability,\u201d she said. \u201cThe scope and seriousness of these images can\u2019t be reduced to a mere oversight issue or to a set design flaw. We demand that every person involved in these horrible decisions from conception to fruition be held accountable, fired, and named so that potential future employers know to never allow them to work with children again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also demand that the entire Kering group and it\u2019s fashion subgroups (Balenciaga, Gucci, etc.) receive [Child Sex Abuse] informed prevention education taught by Survivor Experts to educate on grooming, sexual exploitation prevention and to help create a new workplace standard,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French fashion brand Balenciaga apologized Tuesday after facing backlash over a recent advertisement that showed young children holding teddy bear purses dressed in bondage attire. The brand, which celebrities like Kim Kardashian often wear, displayed images on its website earlier this week as part of its \u201cToy Stories\u201d campaign. 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