Fashion model and Kanye's ex-girlfriend, Julia Fox, posted two videos defending a new Balenciaga ad campaign featuring children with court documents about child pornography and children holding teddy bears dressed in bondage.
After her fans asked her thoughts on the new ad, she said, "First things first, I’m not their spokesperson, I have zero relationship with the brand, I haven’t even been to one of their shows — they haven’t invited me."
"But I couldn’t help but think, damn, the women who are associated to the brand professionally are getting so much pushback, it’s almost as if they’re the f—king child molesters," she continued.
Her fans replied to the videos saying, "Why are women being blamed for a MANS [sic] mistake? It’s the internalized misogyny for me."
"i’m seeing people asking the models/celebrities who have worked with them to apologize? for what exactly? they were not the creatives behind it?" Another said.
Some of the models who have been featured in Balenciaga ads in the past have been asked to denounce the new campaign. Bela Hadid deleted some of her Instagram posts praising the ad, while Nicole Kidman has not made any statement about the ad at all.
Kim Kardashian said she would be reevaluating her relationship with the Balenciaga brand saying, "As a mother of four, I have been shaken by the disturbing images. The safety of children must be held with the highest regard and any attempts to normalize child abuse of any kind should have no place in our society — period."
Balenciaga has released two apologies for their campaign and has taken them down from their social media accounts and released a statement saying, "We strongly condemn child abuse; it was never our intent to include it in our narrative. The two separate ad campaigns in question reflect a series of grievous errors for which Balenciaga takes responsibility."
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