Fashion The New York Times
Ms. Kardashian, one of the most powerful celebrities in the world, walked in the Balenciaga couture runway show in July and has widely credited Demna for helping refashion her personal style in the wake of her divorce. Not long after the Gift Shop campaign was posted online, a groundswell of outrage began against the images that juxtaposed children and what looked like bondage paraphernalia. At the centre, two separate Balenciaga ad campaigns released in the same week, whose imagery has been accused of being suggestive of child sexual abuse and pornography. “We strongly condemn child abuse; it was never our intent to include it in the narrative,” the luxury company wrote in the statement. “North Six has a stellar reputation and they’ve worked with Balenciaga in the past,” the rep said. North Six was not there when the papers and props and all the final arrangements were put together on the set. However, Mosmann has pointed out that the relationship between protesting fashion and creat...