Balenciaga apologizes for its highly controversial campaign involving children

Bad day for Kering.

While the American newspaper

, always very well informed, announces the possible departure of Alessandro Michele from the artistic direction of Gucci, another of its houses, Balenciaga, has been in turmoil since yesterday.

In question, its advertising campaign “Balenciaga Objects” featuring little girls wearing the last bag of the season, a cuddly toy with the air of Gremlins in a

-style leather harness .

The images broadcast since November 16 have not failed to create controversy on social networks, many Internet users reproaching them for their bad taste, some even speaking of “pedo-chic”.

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Yesterday, Internet users also questioned a previous Balenciaga advertising campaign on its collaboration with Adidas for spring-summer 2023, revealed on November 3.

They would have identified on one of the images, sheets of paper printed with a text which would be an extract from an opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States dating…

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