Kim Kardashian’s future with style powerhouse Balenciaga is now unsure after the Paris-based model unveiled advertisements final week depicting kids holding plush bears in bondage-style apparel. Kardashian, who lately has served as an envoy of kinds to the model – sporting the clothes to giant occasions and selling their items on her social media – now says she is rethinking that relationship.
The advertisements, which had been stated to be to advertise Balenciaga’s plush bear baggage, had been a part of the model’s vacation marketing campaign. The bears, nonetheless, are sporting BDSM gear and are being held by kids that look like not more than 5 years previous. In one of many footage, a baby can also be surrounded by what look like wine and cocktail glasses.
“I have been quiet for the past few days, not because I haven’t been disgusted and outraged by the recent Balenciaga campaigns, but because I wanted an opportunity to speak to their team to understand for myself how this could have happened,” she tweeted on Sunday.
“As a mother of four, I have been shaken by the disturbing images,” she wrote. “The safety of children must be held with the highest regard and any attempts to normalize child abuse of any kind should have no place in our society — period.”
Kardashian went on to say that she “appreciates” the model’s removing of the marketing campaign and its apology and that after talking with representatives, she believes “they understand the seriousness of the issue” and will not repeat the scenario.
“As for my future with Balenciaga, I am currently re-evaluating my relationship with the brand, basing it off their willingness to accept accountability for something that should have never happened to begin with — & the actions I am expecting to see them take to protect children,” she stated.
Photos from the marketing campaign have been deleted from Balenciaga’s Instagram web page, with the model saying that the baggage “should not have been featured with children in this campaign.” The marketing campaign additionally included a picture that confirmed a doc that gave the impression to be the 2002 Supreme Court case Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, which struck down two provisions of the Child Pornography Prevention Act that had been stated to be “overbroad and imprecise.”
“We apologize for displaying unsettling documents in our campaign,” Balenciaga stated. “We 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 23 campaign photoshoot. We strongly condemn abuse of children in any form. We stand for children safety and well-being.”
