OK, everyone, here is the CliffsNotes version the easy to understand well explained synopsis of what is going on and why some people are upset b/c there’s a lot of confusion:

Check it out if you’re curious:

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR4YhT7x/

Social media influencers are destroying their own Balenciaga purses :

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR4Y5256/

Throwing out and destroying one’s own Balenciaga gear to make it clear that people are uncomfortable with the advertisements, has become a TikTok trend:

https://www.insider.com/tiktokers-destroying-balenciaga-products-protest-brand-2022-11

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Anonymous wrote:What would be appropriate to say if you came upon a person caring a Balenciaga bag? What would be the polite way to let them know that they shouldn’t be carrying it?

You don’t need to go all Karen. Just worry about yourself and let people know what you’re doing and why, like Jason Al dean’s wife is doing. https://meaww.com/jason-aldeans-wife-brittany-throws-out-balenciaga-products-in-plastic-bags-amid-scandal

Is this a trend? Our other stars and celebrities doing this?

Anonymous wrote:What would be appropriate to say if you came upon a person caring a Balenciaga bag? What would be the polite way to let them know that they shouldn’t be carrying it?

You don’t need to go all Karen. Just worry about yourself and let people know what you’re doing and why, like Jason Al dean’s wife is doing. https://meaww.com/jason-aldeans-wife-brittany-throws-out-balenciaga-products-in-plastic-bags-amid-scandal

What would be appropriate to say if you came upon a person caring a Balenciaga bag? What would be the polite way to let them know that they shouldn’t be carrying it?

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Anonymous wrote:Even selling it or donating it promotes the brand. Throw away.

I would ship it straight back to Balenciaga.

+10000

With some of the clothing, unless it’s labeled, people won’t know. With regard to the bags, I suggest retiring, any Balenciaga and replacing with a Jodie:
https://www.neimanmarcus.com/s/?from=brSearch&responsive=true&request_type=search&search_type=keyword&q=bottega%20veneta%20jodie%20bag&l=bottega%20veneta%20jodie%20bag&fl=&ecid=NMPN_GS_RLXX_XXXX_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX_XXXXXXXX&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI94vb37_Y-wIVCYvICh1cdg_gEAAYASAAEgIFofD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

Anonymous wrote:Even selling it or donating it promotes the brand. Throw away.

I would ship it straight back to Balenciaga.

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Anonymous wrote:Horrible that these kids will have these images of them on the internet forever. They're just kids. Where are there parents in all of this.

It wouldn’t have trigger my warning bells as I steer way clear of p*rn, R rated movies, etc.. Just looked like a weird, dystopian teddy bear until others provided context.

Umm, because that's exactly all it is. This is just marketing to kidults (https://time.com/6234061/toys-for-adults-popularity/ )--embrace the inner child and buy a $2K teddy bear purse or any of the other overpriced junk in the gift guide. The black leather bag and imagery from the earlier campaign has more fetish to it (and only adults). These children aren't sexualized, they look like kids, they don't even look enthralled with the toys, complete meh is the goal.

Now, were they stupid to put actual kids in the ads? Yes, clearly.

I think the legal text around CP being in the photo shoot is what tipped things over the edge. These people are messed up. Though I’m sure in the end the wrong people will be the ones blamed. I find it deeply ironic that in the whole Jeffrey Epstein affair, the only person prosecuted so far has been a women. All the men who committed the sex crimes have escaped prosecution. I suspect the people responsible for the look and feel of these photo shoots will similarly escape harm.

But that’s a different photo shoot, and doesn’t involve children or anyone even depicted as childlike. Connecting the two, is full on conspiracy theory.

And yet the office shoot with the document on the Alito position that virtual child pornography or pornography featuring adults who look underage was not banned also had a framed college degree document on the wall for a John Phillip Fisher, the name of a man bound over for trial for molesting his granddaughter from the ages of 4 to 16.

Why all the gratuitous references to child pornography?

And leftists wonder why a mentally disturbed man would pick up a gun and drive from NC to DC because he thought children were being held in the basement of Comet Pizza?

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Anonymous wrote:Horrible that these kids will have these images of them on the internet forever. They're just kids. Where are there parents in all of this.

It wouldn’t have trigger my warning bells as I steer way clear of p*rn, R rated movies, etc.. Just looked like a weird, dystopian teddy bear until others provided context.

Umm, because that's exactly all it is. This is just marketing to kidults (https://time.com/6234061/toys-for-adults-popularity/ )--embrace the inner child and buy a $2K teddy bear purse or any of the other overpriced junk in the gift guide. The black leather bag and imagery from the earlier campaign has more fetish to it (and only adults). These children aren't sexualized, they look like kids, they don't even look enthralled with the toys, complete meh is the goal.

Now, were they stupid to put actual kids in the ads? Yes, clearly.

I think the legal text around CP being in the photo shoot is what tipped things over the edge. These people are messed up. Though I’m sure in the end the wrong people will be the ones blamed. I find it deeply ironic that in the whole Jeffrey Epstein affair, the only person prosecuted so far has been a women. All the men who committed the sex crimes have escaped prosecution. I suspect the people responsible for the look and feel of these photo shoots will similarly escape harm.

Exactly!!! No accountability for actions is the real issue.

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Anonymous wrote:This is one of those rare areas where the US is truly morally superior to France. Pedophilia and incest are somehow still gray areas in some intellectual and fashion circles. But as PP’s have said, things are changing. Google “nytimes France incest” for many recent stories. My hope is that this gets the entire fashion house shut down. It should be a #metoo moment on behalf of children.

Agreed. I’ve been thinking about this all day, and I’m simply horrified that this is still up for debate anywhere in the world. I saw some of the photos that the employee had posted to her IG before they were taken down and it completely changed how I saw the ad. I can’t stop thinking about the kids and I feel sick. I agree that the house needs to go out of business. We need to put businesses on notice that we won’t buy anything with even a whiff of child trafficking. I’ll buy from brands whose politics I disagree with, but human trafficking and child pornography are evil.

How would you feel if you knew your US tax dollars were supporting human trafficking and child exploitation here in the US by cartels, and that US officials were not stopping it because cartels don’t file lawsuits?

You seriously don’t know the answer OP?

Big eye roll for you.

Anonymous wrote:What happened to the buck stops at the top? Something like this happens under your watch, Demna, by your acolytes who are always trying to one up themselves to be edgy and provocative? You resign.

Well Demna has slightly suffered. Business of Fashion has withdrawn the award they were going give him next week for supporting marginalized people.


"Balenciaga’s creative director, Demna Gvasalia, often known by his first name only, was set to receive Business of Fashion’s Global Voices Award next week, for “using his platform to interrogate socio-political issues and support marginalised people.” But the publication stated on Instagram that it’s rescinding the offer. BoF said it would instead invite representatives from Balenciaga to attend the event as an opportunity to explain how this happened. Balenciaga declined the opportunity, according to BoF’s statement."

Link below with some interesting insights as well into the lawsuits.

https://www.glossy.co/fashion/the-balenciaga-controversy-explained/

What happened to the buck stops at the top? Something like this happens under your watch, Demna, by your acolytes who are always trying to one up themselves to be edgy and provocative? You resign.