Photos from scrapped Balenciaga campaign feature book by artist whose works include castrated toddlers... after bondage teddy bears fiasco and hidden child porn docs

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[algore]

More photographs from an axed Balenciaga campaign are being questioned today over the prominence of a book which celebrates a Belgian artist whose work includes depictions of castrated toddlers.

Two photos from the brand's now canceled Spring '23 ad campaign feature French actress Isabelle Huppert posing in a Manhattan office with a stack of books behind her.

Among the books is one that celebrates the Belgian painter Michael Borremans. Borremans' work is varied but frequently features children. His 2017/2018 series, Fire from the Sun, shows a group of toddlers, some of them with blood staining their skin, in sinister composition.

In some of the images, the toddlers appear castrated.

Balenciaga has not commented on the Borremans book

There are other distinct similarities between Borremans' work and some of Balenciaga's past designs - namely Kim's look at the 2021 Met Gala, where she appeared with black fabric covering her face

The images which feature the book of his work were swiftly pulled from the fashion brand's website this week after the BDSM teddy bears controversy.

Those images showed young child models holding the bears - which are in fact fluffy handbags - posing around glassware.

In a statement on Monday, the brand apologized for the bears campaign again, and took full responsibility of it.

'We would like to address the controversies surrounding our recent ad campaigns. We strongly condemn child abuse; it was never our intent to include it in our narrative.

'The two separate ad campaigns in questions reflect a series of grievous errors for which Balenciaga takes responsibility.

'The first campaign, the gift collection campaign, featured children with plush bear bags dressed in what some have labelled BDMS-inspired outfits. Our plush bear bags and the gift collection should not have been featured with children

[algore]

I actually watched a movie staring Isabella, I was shocked and traumatized, still am many years later.

I went to my local blockbuster to get 'the pianist' but instead got 'the piano teacher'

The Piano Teacher (French: La Pianiste, lit. 'The Pianist') is a 2001 erotic psychological drama film written and directed by Michael Haneke, based on the 1983 novel of the same name by Elfriede Jelinek. It tells the story of an unmarried piano teacher (Isabelle Huppert) at a Vienna conservatory, living with her mother (Annie Girardot) in a state of emotional and sexual disequilibrium, who enters into a sadomasochistic relationship with her student (Benoît Magimel). A co-production of Austria and France, Haneke was given the opportunity to direct after previous attempts to adapt the novel by filmmakers Valie Export and Paulus Manker collapsed for financial reasons.

At the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, it won the Grand Prix; the two leads, Huppert and Magimel, won Best Actress and Best Actor. It went on to receive positive reviews and other awards and nominations.

[Reno89519]

This is all too sick to contemplate. We really need to see how we get all this kicked out of acceptable society.

[PLMerite]

Balenciaga - Swag for people with too much money. Probably also the type who would go in for sick sh!t.

[jarwulf]

If they want to abuse children they should just do it the socially acceptable way by mutilating and drugging them in the name of transitioning.

[Ann Archy]

Ever since the DEMONCRATS slithered out of PIZZAGATE, Pedos are running this country.....Brandon is a PEDO, or else he plays one on TV! And supposedly 82 MILLION people "voted" for the PEDO!!!!

We are a SICK, EVIL country!

[TigerClaws]

Google (and your own emotional peril) the “art collection” of Tony Podesta.

Sick folks and the Satanism and pedophilia is disguised as “art.” Satan demands innocent blood and suffering. They do rituals in the abortion clinics. They spread war and disease. All part of their service to Lucifer.

The battle against globalism is a battle against one world government as (we know) it will be taken over by the Antichrist. They want one word one government total control. They hate God, hate America, hate Christ, and hate us.

[TiGuy22]

Balenciaga - Swag for people with too much money. Probably also the type who would go in for sick sh!t.

I was informed last week that “swag” is now referred to as “merch”. :-)

[hecticskeptic]

SPJNK?

[jurroppi1]

some people just need killing.

[Louis Foxwell]

Meanwhile the very authorities who are horrified at these depictions continue to encourage the identical behavior in the name of gender dysphoria.

[Cronos]

As a rule I refuse to watch French films - they’re either idiotically stupid or depressing from my limited experience of them.

Perhaps I ain’t philosophically deep, but no more “je suis triste....”

[Albion Wilde]

I actually watched a movie staring Isabella, I was shocked and traumatized, still am many years later.

I used to love movies. From the 50s through the 80s I went to about half of every decade's Oscar winners, before even knowing they would win, plus many more.

I had the same long-term revulsed reaction that you describe to Last Tango in Paris, American Beauty, and The English Patient, when the tide of morally transgressive movies advertised as if they are for mainstream tastes started turning from a trickle to a flood in the late 80s - early 90s. All of them had seemed attractive because of the big-name stars or directors associated with them.

Traumatizing is the right verb for the experience. I pretty much stopped going to movies after that, unless I researched everything about a film, which takes too much time.