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Lala Kent criticizes Balenciaga for ‘scary’ advertising campaign for children
Lala Kent is furious with Balenciaga over an ad campaign featuring BDSM teddy bears modeled on children, which has since been discontinued.
The photos that surfaced on Instagram showed two young girls holding bags made of teddy bears, wearing bondage gear. Court documents regarding child pornography laws surfaced on the set.
“I’m sure I’ll get banned…again for posting this – but I have to,” the “Vanderpump Rules” star, who is the mother of a one-year-old daughter, wrote in her Instagram story on Wednesday alongside headlines highlighting the criticism the fashion house’s campaign has drawn.
“I’m proud that I don’t own a single Balenciaga play,” she continued, adding that the audience “needs[s] know what that document under Balenciaga’s bag says.
“If you zoom in, it SEEMS to have some scary words in it,” she noted. “We all…we need to do better.”
Bravolebrity, 31, encouraged her followers to “cast away the darkness” and “find the light.”
“The well-being of our world and all that [sic] innocent beings depend on it.”
Balenciaga “campaign removed from all platforms” on Tuesday and apologized for both portraying children and “showing disturbing documents” in a Christmas ad that supported the brand’s Spring/Summer 2023 collection.
The brand insisted in its statement that the company “strongly condemns[s] exploitation of children in any form” and claimed that the directors were already “taking legal action against parties responsible for creating the set and including unapproved elements”.
Kent specifically disagreed with this part, writing: “Yo, @balenciaga – YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SITE.”
“Many of these brands are used to us being sheep. “They’re stupid, they’ll never notice,” the reality star added. “Guess what – we notice and do not close. We must protect these children.”
Campaign photographer Gabriele Galimberti, spoke out on the matter after receiving “hundreds of hate emails and messages”.
“I am unable to comment [on] Balenciaga’s choices, but I must stress that I was in no way authorized to choose either the products, the models, or their combinations.” he insisted via Instagram on Wednesday, adding that “the direction of the campaign and the choice of objects to be exhibited” are not in his hands.
Galimberti further claimed “no relation” to the photo containing legal documents of the Supreme Court.
“This photo was taken on a different set by other people and was falsely linked to my photos,” he wrote.