{"id":1754246,"date":"2022-11-28T19:26:14","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T00:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1754246"},"modified":"2022-11-28T19:26:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T00:26:21","slug":"leading-fashion-industry-publication-revokes-top-award-from-balenciaga-after-child-photo-shoot-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leading-fashion-industry-publication-revokes-top-award-from-balenciaga-after-child-photo-shoot-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Leading Fashion Industry Publication Revokes Top Award From Balenciaga After Child Photo Shoot Scandal"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fleading-fashion-industry-publication-revokes-top-award-from-balenciaga-after-child-photo-shoot-scandal%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=1754246&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>The Business of Fashion announced in a statement Monday afternoon that they were revoking a top award that they gave to Balenciaga\u2019s creative director over Balenciaga\u2019s recent scandal involving young children who appeared in a photo shoot with \u201cBDSM-inspired products.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/kim-kardashian-slammed-for-statement-over-balenciaga-scandal-there-is-no-grey-area-here\">Balenciaga<\/a>, which celebrities like Kim Kardashian often wear, displayed images on its website last week as part of its \u201cToy Stories\u201d campaign. The photos showed child models posing with the brand\u2019s teddy bear handbags, with the bears dressed in BDSM-themed gear from its Paris Fashion Week Spring\/Summer 2023 collection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince its inception, BoF VOICES has been a platform for important, honest and sometimes uncomfortable conversations that have helped to address key issues in the fashion industry head on,\u201d Business of Fashion said in a statement. \u201cEarlier this year, we invited Balenciaga\u2019s creative director Demna to BoF VOICES to receive our Global VOICES Award for 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt BoF, we hold the safety of children in the highest regard,\u201d the statement continued. \u201cAnd like many, we have been seeking the truth about how children appeared with BDSM-inspired products in Balenciaga\u2019s recent campaign images, which are wholly inconsistent with our values. As a result, we will not be presenting Demna with the Global VOICES Award this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNonetheless, we asked the leadership at Balenciaga to come to VOICES to take responsibility for releasing these images and offer an explanation,\u201d the statement concluded. \u201cThey declined our invitation to speak at this time, but BoF remains open to having this important conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wow\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Business of Fashion is revoking their Global Voices award from Balenciaga. <\/p>\n<p>They invited Balenciaga\u2019s creative director to explain things but they declined. <\/p>\n<p>Good on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BoF?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BoF<\/a> and it\u2019s founder <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/imranamed?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@imranamed<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VPxnq4naWo\">pic.twitter.com\/VPxnq4naWo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Yashar Ali \ud83d\udc18 \u06cc\u0627\u0634\u0627\u0631 (@yashar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yashar\/status\/1597319134022279168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Balenciaga responded to the ongoing scandal on Monday by saying that it could have \u201cdone things differently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company said it \u201cstrongly condemns child abuse; it was never our intent to include it in our narrative\u201d and the two separate ad campaigns represented \u201ca series of grievous errors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first campaign, the gift collection campaign, featured children with plush bear bags dressed in what some have labelled BDSM- inspired outfits,\u201d the statement said. \u201cOur plush bear bags and the gift collection should not have been featured with children. This was a wrong choice by Balenciaga, combined with our failure in assessing and validating images. The responsibility for this lies with Balenciaga alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe second, separate campaign for Spring 2023, which was meant to replicate a business office environment, included a photo with a page in the background from a Supreme Court ruling \u2018United States v. Williams\u2019 2008 which confirms as illegal and not protected by freedom of speech the promotion of child pornography,\u201d the statement continued. \u201cAll the items included in this shooting 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. The inclusion of these unapproved documents was the result of reckless negligence for which Balenciaga has filed a complaint. We take full accountability for our lack of oversight and control of the documents in the background and we could have done things differently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Balenciaga said it took several steps to correct what happened so it doesn\u2019t happen again, including revising work and approval processes and working with organizations that \u201cspecialize in child protection and aims at ending child abuse and exploitation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/super-bowl-mvp-cooper-kupp-unloads-on-balenciaga-over-child-photo-shoot-scandal\">Super Bowl MVP Cooper Kupp Unloads On Balenciaga Over Child Photo Shoot Scandal<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Business of Fashion announced in a statement Monday afternoon that they were revoking a top award that they gave to Balenciaga\u2019s creative director over Balenciaga\u2019s recent scandal involving young children who appeared in a photo shoot with \u201cBDSM-inspired products.\u201d Balenciaga, which celebrities like Kim Kardashian often wear, displayed images on its website last week &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":1754249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1754246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1754246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1754249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1754246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1754246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1754246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}