Standing her ground. Kim Kardashian opened up about Balenciaga’s controversial campaign that featured children posing with BDSM-inpsired stuffed animals — and defended herself amid backlash that she didn’t react fast enough.“With the Balenciaga thing, everyone was like, ‘Why aren’t you speaking out?’ And I was like, ‘Wait, I’m not in this campaign, I don’t know what’s happening.
Let me take a minute to research this,” Kardashian, 42, said during the Monday, December 26, episode of the “Angie Martinez IRL” podcast. “And as soon as I saw what everyone was seeing on the internet and the reality of the situation I completely spoke out and gave my thoughts on child pornography.
I completely denounced it.”Balenciaga’s promotion for their Spring/Summer 2023 collection, which dropped on November 16, featured two young girls holding the purses — that were designed to look like teddy bears in BDSM-inspired looks — while surrounded by Balenciaga products, including clothing and home goods.
Other images, where the children weren’t present, showed a handbag resting atop a mess of files and paperwork — which turned out to include an excerpt from a Supreme Court case on child pornography.The SKKN by Kim founder first came under fire after she posed in the label later that month without commenting on the photo shoot.
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