Teddy bears in bondage gear: Why Balenciaga's latest campaign has sparked outrage

Images from Balenciaga's latest holiday campaign have been described as "disturbing" and "child exploiting".

The visible portion of the document also has a reference to another Supreme Court case, Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition.Loading Twitter contentAnother photo in the campaign features a model sitting in an office chair inside a high-rise building. "Toddlers engaged in playful but mysterious acts with sinister overtones and insinuations of violence".Within moments of Balenciaga's campaign being released online, the hashtags #BoycottBalenciaga and #CancelBalenciaga started trending.

Among the anger-fuelled responses online, one user said "most people won't even remember" what happened with the brand.The company pulled the campaign and released an apology on Instagram for what many perceived as the sexualisation of children.

wrong wrong wrong. stop exploiting bearz! 🐻🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

Appalling Aussie.

Jog on, covid is a huge emergency as is poverty!

I think people are reading too much into this.

This is some really demented shit! I literally don't get how this stuff was greenlit for publication. Have Balenciaga lost their minds?

Hahahaha 🤣 seriously, people today, offensive 🤦‍♂️ really 🤣

they do this because they know you’ll do this

LeaveTheKidsAlone

Beauty and aesthetics don't belong in post modern western civilisations, it's perversion and the grotesque that's the new apex.

I will not shop with BalenciagaGroomers

you would agree that this is pretty bad, right?

G’day shoe0nhead, you made it to Australia

This is simply sick. It's not art or fashion but simply an expression from a pedo who claims to be an 'artist'

There needs to be some police investigation on the people who put this campaign out, with all the layers of inappropriateness in the images, there's more going on.

Literally never heard of the brand before the company put out the pedo campaign.

Golly, look at you ABC reporting on something happening in another country and deeming it in the public interest. Well done. Disgraceful isn't it? LeaveTheKidsAlone

The ABC stirs the embers of cultural discord because it gets clicks in the attention economy....

thanks for the explanation abc. 👏

'this is everything I hate about fashion' d.guiness😟

Abc fake outrage. Your no longer news just AUS veriso of HELLO magazine

TeddyTedaloo

Children playing with mini-bondage gear.. how is that not promoting the sexualisation of children?

But the Bible with all the rape, killing, incest and loads the size of horses is totes fine for children.

Groomers. 'Open wide, come inside'

JimmyDoreShow did good talk about it.

Leftist Elite Paedophile rings are very real. Ghislaine’s client list still not revealed. It’s called Democrat privilege

They should lose it all. Completely cancelled. Ye got cancelled for a tweet. The hypocrisy

I think it’s fine. Humphrey Bear used to run around in a waistcoat and no pants.

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