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Anonymous wrote:If you want to be really disturbed read this. NSFW

https://reduxx.info/child-sex-mannequins-being-sold-in-auction-house-owned-by-head-of-balenciaga-parent-company/

Oh my goodness. This needs a trigger warning. What is going on with this company?????

Is this actually real? My God, it’s horrifying if so. Do not click that link.

Can you tl/dr it for those of us who don't want to click?

I (a) can’t believe these are sentences I am about to type and (b) am not sure how I can even type this without getting Jeff in trouble with advertiser networks, but here goes: Balenciaga is owned by a company, Kering, which is run by François-Henri Pinault. Pinault also had a holding company, Groupe Artémis, which owns Christie’s auction house.

DO NOT READ FURTHER IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO BE ILL.

Christie’s sells “art” — the term should be used advisedly — by two brothers, Jake and Dinos Chapman. They sell plastic mannequins through Christie’s which are part of a collection called the “F*** Face” collection. The mannequins in the collection feature grotesquely deformed children with genitalia in place of their facial features. For example, a toddler with an open a*** where his mouth would normally be and an erect p**** for a nose, or toddler conjoined children with open vag***s. Do not click the link. It is stomach-turning.

More information not in the article:

Pinault apparently owns some of the brothers’ work but not from this collection. The brothers were nominated for a Turner Prize in 2003. In 2008 they released art in which they took watercolors painted by Hitler and (by Jake’s own words) “prettified” them. Jake has spoken publicly about how the boys that murdered Liverpool toddler James Bulger performed a “good social service.” In 2014 Jake spoke out about taking children to art galleries because “children are not human yet.” Female journalists reporting negatively on the brothers have reported receiving death threats from the brothers.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you want to be really disturbed read this. NSFW

https://reduxx.info/child-sex-mannequins-being-sold-in-auction-house-owned-by-head-of-balenciaga-parent-company/

Oh my goodness. This needs a trigger warning. What is going on with this company?????

Is this actually real? My God, it’s horrifying if so. Do not click that link.

Can you tl/dr it for those of us who don't want to click?

They are very graphic, disturbing sex dolls that are obviously intended to look like children. Only someone very sick would not only think up the concept, but then build them, and try to sell them.

Here’s a gist from the article:

On December 3, British broadcaster Dominique Samuels called attention to what appears to be the next layer in the Balenciaga “pedo-chic” scandal that caused a viral outcry last month.

In her seven-post thread, Samuels points out that François-Henri Pinault, the French multi-billionaire at the helm of Balenciaga’s parent company, Kering, also owns an auction house which oversaw the sale of extremely graphic child “sex mutants.”

Adding.. apparently the dolls are still on the Christie’s website. They sold in 2010. So I guess this is not new.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you want to be really disturbed read this. NSFW

https://reduxx.info/child-sex-mannequins-being-sold-in-auction-house-owned-by-head-of-balenciaga-parent-company/

Oh my goodness. This needs a trigger warning. What is going on with this company?????

Is this actually real? My God, it’s horrifying if so. Do not click that link.

Can you tl/dr it for those of us who don't want to click?

They are very graphic, disturbing sex dolls that are obviously intended to look like children. Only someone very sick would not only think up the concept, but then build them, and try to sell them.

Here’s a gist from the article:

On December 3, British broadcaster Dominique Samuels called attention to what appears to be the next layer in the Balenciaga “pedo-chic” scandal that caused a viral outcry last month.

In her seven-post thread, Samuels points out that François-Henri Pinault, the French multi-billionaire at the helm of Balenciaga’s parent company, Kering, also owns an auction house which oversaw the sale of extremely graphic child “sex mutants.”

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you want to be really disturbed read this. NSFW

https://reduxx.info/child-sex-mannequins-being-sold-in-auction-house-owned-by-head-of-balenciaga-parent-company/

Oh my goodness. This needs a trigger warning. What is going on with this company?????

Is this actually real? My God, it’s horrifying if so. Do not click that link.

No it’s important people click and see exactly who they are dealing with.

Who are they dealing with? Does anyone even remember artists names after reading this garbage? What's the connection?

It's a Christie's auction from twelve years ago of work created thirty years ago. Jake and Dinos Chapman. The article is sensational and prurient.

What exactly is it? For those of us who don’t want to click.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you want to be really disturbed read this. NSFW

https://reduxx.info/child-sex-mannequins-being-sold-in-auction-house-owned-by-head-of-balenciaga-parent-company/

Oh my goodness. This needs a trigger warning. What is going on with this company?????

Is this actually real? My God, it’s horrifying if so. Do not click that link.

No it’s important people click and see exactly who they are dealing with.

Who are they dealing with? Does anyone even remember artists names after reading this garbage? What's the connection?

It's a Christie's auction from twelve years ago of work created thirty years ago. Jake and Dinos Chapman. The article is sensational and prurient.

The average person has no idea what’s going on. The brand will be fine.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you want to be really disturbed read this. NSFW

https://reduxx.info/child-sex-mannequins-being-sold-in-auction-house-owned-by-head-of-balenciaga-parent-company/

Oh my goodness. This needs a trigger warning. What is going on with this company?????

Is this actually real? My God, it’s horrifying if so. Do not click that link.

Can you tl/dr it for those of us who don't want to click?

I wonder if they have to completely scrap all of their existing advertising photos and products, even if the pictures themselves don’t have anything that could be arguably offensive, if the people taking the photos or the creative Director etc. was associated with those awful photos, can they still use them? What will they do for advertising? It’ll be interesting to see what happens with that right now. They don’t have any advertising on their Instagram or Facebook.

Mugatu keeps popping ip in my head. Who knew zoolander was a documentary? These people are cartoonishly evil.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you want to be really disturbed read this. NSFW

https://reduxx.info/child-sex-mannequins-being-sold-in-auction-house-owned-by-head-of-balenciaga-parent-company/

Oh my goodness. This needs a trigger warning. What is going on with this company?????

Is this actually real? My God, it’s horrifying if so. Do not click that link.

No it’s important people click and see exactly who they are dealing with.

Who are they dealing with? Does anyone even remember artists names after reading this garbage? What's the connection?

WTF? I would never waste my money on this crap anyway, but this is absolutely repellent. The company should not only go put of business, but the owners and others investigated to see if there are more kids who have been harmed. Either way, they should go to prison. Sickos.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you want to be really disturbed read this. NSFW

https://reduxx.info/child-sex-mannequins-being-sold-in-auction-house-owned-by-head-of-balenciaga-parent-company/

Oh my goodness. This needs a trigger warning. What is going on with this company?????

Is this actually real? My God, it’s horrifying if so. Do not click that link.

No it’s important people click and see exactly who they are dealing with.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you want to be really disturbed read this. NSFW

https://reduxx.info/child-sex-mannequins-being-sold-in-auction-house-owned-by-head-of-balenciaga-parent-company/

Oh my goodness. This needs a trigger warning. What is going on with this company?????

Is this actually real? My God, it’s horrifying if so. Do not click that link.

Perverts

Anonymous wrote:If you want to be really disturbed read this. NSFW

https://reduxx.info/child-sex-mannequins-being-sold-in-auction-house-owned-by-head-of-balenciaga-parent-company/

Oh my goodness. This needs a trigger warning. What is going on with this company?????