Balenciaga is apologizing for two concurrent controversies concerning child abuse imagery in its advertisements.

 

An ad for the Balenciaga’s Adidas collaboration bag depicted the product on top of an office desk covered in documents. One page, mostly covered by the bag, contains text of the Supreme Court case United States v. Williamsa SCOTUS case concerning the distribution of child pornography.

The brand was forced to apologize Tuesday for the document’s inclusion and stated they would be pursuing legal action against the individuals who placed the text in the image.

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“We apologize for displaying unsettling documents in our campaign. 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,” a brand statement published on Instagram read. “We strongly condemn abuse of children in any form. We stand for children safety and well-being.”

In United States v. Williams, the Supreme Court ruled that it was not a violation of the First Amendment to prosecute individuals pandering the sale of child pornography without actually possessing such material.

Fashion house Balenciaga created the handbag in partnership with Adidas.

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A Balenciaga store. (iStock / iStock)

Balenciaga simultaneously apologized for a separate but concurrent ad campaign that featured photos of child models holding teddy bears dressed in bondage gear.

“We sincerely apologize for any offense our holiday campaign may have caused. Our plush bear bags should not have been featured with children in this campaign. We have immediately removed the campaign from all platforms,” read a separate post from Balenciaga.  (It says that the bags were no supposed to be featured with children…but who are the bags designed for??  Why are Teddy Bears in bondage gear??  They expect us to believe that they had no idea these ads were going out.  HOGWASH!!  They spend way to much money on Ads to allow ANY to go out UNAPPROVED!!  I would certainly expect that ads such as these had to be approved by the very highest executives.  Tell me that they did not see them as soon as they were released??  Why were they not pulled immediately?  Why did it take an uproar from the public for the company to remove the images/ads??)

The photographer for the ad campaign, Gabriele Galimberti, said the images were part of a project series called “Toy Stories,” according to his Instagram page. The images now appear to be mostly scrubbed from the global brand’s website.

FOX Business reached out to Adidas, Balenciaga and Balenciaga’s parent company Kering Group for comment but did not receive a response.

Francois Pinault and Francois-Henri Pinault / Kering  It was actually founded way back in 1963 by a man by the name of Francois Pinault, and it was never meant to be a luxury brand to begin with, it was actually specifically started as a wood and building materials company instead.
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François-Henri Pinault (French: ; born () 28 May 1962) is a French businessman, the chairman and CEO of Kering since 2005, and president of Groupe Artémis since 2003. Under his leadership, the retail conglomerate PPR was transformed into the luxury fashion group Kering. Pinault is the son of François Pinault, the founder of PPR. He has been married to Salma Hayek since 2009, and they have a …
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The CEO of Balenciaga’s parent company Kering also owns an auction website that sells grotesque art depicting naked children with mutated bodies and sex organs for faces. Groupe Artémis, the holding company of billionaire Kering CEO François-Henri Pinault – husband of actress Salma Hayek – owns Christie’s auction house.

Artemis is the goddess of the Hunt, Goddess of the Crossroads, the queen of the Mountains, guardian of the wilderness, she is associated with wolves and the Bear.  She is also known as Hectate, Queen of the Witches.

Fox News’s Brianna Herlihy contributed to this report.

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Warning: Graphic Images

By Jamie White

More disturbing Satanic art linked to fashion brand Balenciaga.

The CEO of Balenciaga’s parent company Kering also owns an auction website that sells grotesque art depicting naked children with mutated bodies and sex organs for faces.

Groupe Artémis, the holding company of billionaire Kering CEO François-Henri Pinault – husband of actress Salma Hayek – owns Christie’s auction house.

The Christie’s website features a series of art pieces by brothers Jake and Dinos Chapman, including mannequins of children with erect penises and anuses in place of a nose and mouth.

Their works fetch from hundreds of dollars to more than $500,000.

WARNING: The following images depict graphic and disturbing content. Viewer discretion strongly advised:

The “art” piece below, called Fuck Face, is priced at nearly $140,000 alone.

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Other pieces depict mutated or mutilated child mannequins, some conjoined in inhuman and bizarre ways.

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The following piece depicts castrated and butchered men hanging from a tree.

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The gallery also featured a pornographic VHS from 1996 showing two porn actresses having sex with a severed adult male mannequin head with an erect penis for a nose. It sold for $1,300.

The VHS was even featured in a British television documentary.

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“Despite the recent focus on it online, the British brothers’ deliberately provocative work has been sold via Christie’s for more than two decades, achieving prices that range from hundreds of dollars to more than $500,000,” Newsweek reported.

Among the pieces sold was the videotape of a pornographic film, shot in 1996, which showed actresses having sex with the severed head of an adult male mannequin. It sold back in 2001 for the equivalent of more than $1,300.”

Newsweek claimed that Pinault likely has no “input” of what goes on Christie’s website.

Perhaps, but the following sculpture is from THE FRANÇOIS PINAULT COLLECTION called Sex III, showing an amalgamation of demonic skeletal figures on a dead tree covered in necrotic insects.

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Also in his collection is an exhibit titled, “Disasters of War AP II of II,” featuring a piece showing a Swastika made of human fingers, and another depicting what looks to be a child being handed over to a naked man with two monkey heads.

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This revelation comes after a top Balenciaga stylist’s social media was exposed as containing a plethora of shocking photos and works of art depicting motifs of Satanism, witchcraft, and sadistic child abuse.

Balenciaga issued several apologetic statements over its ad campaign that featured young children holding teddy bears in BDSM gear, blaming the incident on “a series of grievous errors.”

“We strongly condemn child abuse; it was never our intent to include it in our narrative,” the fashion brand claimed.

Notably, Balenciaga has a history of subliminal and Satanic motifs inserted into its ad campaigns, which may explain why the fashion brand completely deleted its social media accounts amid the BDSM bear backlash.

H/t StrangeSounds.org

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