{"id":70879,"date":"2023-12-05T03:24:41","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T03:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geels.net\/?p=70879"},"modified":"2023-12-05T03:24:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T03:24:41","slug":"nicole-kidman-is-blasted-after-being-named-the-face-of-balenciaga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geels.net\/beauty\/nicole-kidman-is-blasted-after-being-named-the-face-of-balenciaga\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicole Kidman is blasted after being named the face of Balenciaga"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> Nicole Kidman is blasted by her fans after she is named the face of Balenciaga &#8211; one year after the brand&#8217;s BDSM themed kids clothing controversy: &#8216;Disappointed in you&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>READ MORE: Nicole Kidman flaunts her endless legs\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nicole Kidman\u00a0has been blasted by her fans after partnering with controversial fashion label Balenciaga for its latest campaign launch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The French-based fashion house sparked controversy in late 2022 after it released a shoot that placed children alongside BDSM-themed items.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The saga prompted more revelations to emerge about Balenciaga&#8217;s previous campaigns, with fans discovering the Spring\/Summer 2023 campaign featured pages from a US Supreme Court decision on child pornography laws.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nicole, who has ignored the controversy so far, surprised fans on Sunday when she was\u00a0officially announced Balenciaga&#8217;s newest celebrity ambassador during the brand&#8217;s Fall 2024 fashion show in Los Angeles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The news sparked backlash among the Eyes Wide Shut actress&#8217;s social media followers, many of whom have left comments expressing their disappointment.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/04\/22\/78574181-12825191-image-a-15_1701730398302.jpg\" height=\"951\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Nicole Kidman has been lambasted by her fans after it was announced she had partnered with controversial fashion label Balenciaga for its latest campaign launch (Pictured at Balenciaga&#8217;s Fall 2024 fashion show)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Bad choice Nicole!!! Do better!!!&#8217; one concerned fan wrote, after Nicole shared black-and-white images of herself attending the fashion show.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Disappointed you chose that brand,&#8217; another added, while someone else added: &#8216;Nice campaign to make us all forget [eyeroll emoji].&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another person wrote: &#8216;Nicole is always such a beauty, but DANG&#8230; money must be tight for all these movie stars and musicians too when they have to support that business.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However there were plenty of positive comments praising Nicole&#8217;s glamorous photos.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Absolutely gorgeous,&#8217; one wrote, while another user added: &#8216;Holy hell, these are brilliant!&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nicole&#8217;s latest collaboration with Balenciaga comes a year after the<span>\u00a0company received immense criticism for releasing a set of images that showed children posing alongside a slew of BDSM-related items.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/05\/00\/78512385-12825191-Nicole_s_latest_collaboration_with_Balenciaga_comes_a_year_after-a-30_1701737774782.jpg\" height=\"798\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Nicole&#8217;s latest collaboration with Balenciaga comes a year after the company received immense criticism for releasing a set of images that showed children posing alongside a slew of BDSM-related items<\/p>\n<h3>THE BALENCIAGA SCANDAL: BONDAGE BEARS, CHILD PORN DOCS AND AN ARTIST KNOWN FOR DEPICTING NAKED KIDS<\/h3>\n<p>The Bondage Bears Christmas campaign\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The scandal erupted when Balenciaga released its 2022 Holiday ad campaign that featured children posing with its Plush Toy Bag. The bags look like teddy bears and are dressed in BDSM gear.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the photo shoot, the kids also appeared surrounded by empty wine and champagne glasses.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/11\/29\/14\/64766895-11481411-Balenciaga_withdrew_this_holiday_campaign_featuring_BDSM_bears_w-a-51_1669733038553.jpg\" height=\"437\" width=\"586\"><\/p>\n<p>The distinctly adult themes immediately troubled many who asked why children had ever been used.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Balenciaga ignored the scandal at first and seemingly allowed the photographer who was involved,\u00a0Gabriele Galimberti, to take the heat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He released a statement saying he had no control over the content of the shoot and eventually, Balenciaga released its own statement agreeing with him and taking responsibility for the campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It has now been pulled from the internet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The hidden child porn documents\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After the BDSM bears fiasco, eagle-eyed critics started examining the rest of Balenciaga&#8217;s campaigns closely.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They soon discovered that in the background of an image from the Spring &#8217;23 campaign was a printout of a Supreme Court ruling on whether or not internet child porn can be legally considered free speech.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/02\/09\/19\/65014791-11481775-This_is_the_July_ad_campaign_which_featured_the_printout_of_the_-a-2_1675969979283.jpg\" height=\"368\" width=\"284\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/02\/09\/19\/64849649-11481775-One_of_the_ad_s_photos_contained_an_excerpt_from_the_US_Supreme_-a-1_1675969979132.jpg\" height=\"368\" width=\"284\"><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the back of the bears scandal, many critics said it pointed to a troubling pattern within Balenciaga.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Balenciaga was quick to blame North Six, a production company that helped arrange the shoot, for the inclusion of those documents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They claimed that they entrusted all of the props from the photoshoot to North Six, and that their team was assured everything that was included was fake.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The troubling book of artist whose work depicts naked, castrated toddlers\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Balenciaga is yet to answer for the inclusion of a book by Michael Borremans in the background of two of the images from the Spring &#8217;23 campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Borremans is a Belgian painter whose work includes a troubling 2017 series called Fire From The Sun.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It depicts naked toddlers &#8211; some of them castrated &#8211; playing in a group and at times alone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers for the brand are yet to address DailyMail.com&#8217;s questions about how the book ended up on the photoshoot.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/11\/29\/14\/65022341-11481411-In_this_image_from_Balenciaga_s_scrapped_Spring_23_campaign_Isab-a-59_1669733062519.jpg\" height=\"734\" width=\"586\"><\/p>\n<p>In this image from Balenciaga&#8217;s scrapped Spring &#8217;23 campaign,\u00a0Isabelle Huppert sits in front of a stack of books including one that celebrates Michael Borremans, a Belgian painter whose work is known to include depictions of castrated toddlers<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/02\/09\/19\/65022331-11481775-Borremans_other_work_includes_his_2017_series_Fire_From_The_Sun_-a-3_1675969979864.jpg\" height=\"461\" width=\"586\"><\/p>\n<p>Borremans&#8217; other work includes his 2017 series Fire From The Sun, which features castrated toddlers and babies holding what look like severed limbs, while playing together nude in a large group<\/p>\n<p><span>In the photo shoot the kids also appeared surrounded by empty wine and champagne glasses.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The distinctly adult themes immediately troubled many who asked why children had ever been used.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Balenciaga ignored the scandal at first and seemingly allowed the photographer who was involved,\u00a0Gabriele Galimberti, to take the heat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He released a statement saying he had no control over the content of the shoot and eventually, Balenciaga released its own statement agreeing with him and taking responsibility for the campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the back of the bears scandal, many critics said it pointed to a troubling pattern within Balenciaga.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> A\u00a0Twitter user\u00a0discovered that one of the photos in a separate shoot contained an excerpt from the 2008 US Supreme Court opinion in United States v. Williams, which upheld part of a federal child pornography law, which Twitter&#8217;s own fact-checkers confirmed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Balenciaga was quick to blame North Six, a production company that helped arrange the shoot, for the inclusion of those documents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They claimed that they entrusted all of the props from the photoshoot to North Six, and that their team was assured everything that was included was fake.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/05\/00\/65044211-12825191-The_Australian_actress_starred_in_the_fashion_brand_s_Spring_202-a-29_1701737774744.jpg\" height=\"960\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The Australian actress starred in the fashion brand&#8217;s Spring 2023 campaign, which was unveiled just as the BDSM scandal broke (pictured in Balenciaga in July 2022)<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE:\u00a0Nicole Kidman is savagely trolled about her weight as she flaunts her tiny frame<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/05\/00\/78416025-12825191-image-a-28_1701737190680.jpg\" height=\"730\" width=\"586\"><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-12825191\/Nicole-Kidman-blasted-fans-Balenciaga.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicole Kidman is blasted by her fans after she is named the face of Balenciaga &#8211; one year after the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>US Entertainment News. 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