BAALENCIAGA
and the "Ukraine Recovery" direction
Borremans' 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
BAAL ENCIAGA
Creative director of Balenciaga Demna became the ambassador of United24
28 July 2022 - 18:34
Creative director of the Balenciaga fashion house Demna became the ambassador of the United24 fundraising platform initiated by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the "Ukraine Recovery" direction to help temporarily displaced persons.
https://united24-demna.balenciaga.com/
Controversial Balenciaga designer Demna Gvasalia 'dragging house down': insiders (nypost.com)
Olga Liriano, who’s spent years in the fashion industry as a model booker, photo director and top magazine editor, said it is ridiculous to think Demna and the top echelon at Balenciaga didn’t know what the campaigns were going to look like once they were photographed. (The teddy-bear ad was shot by Gabriele Galimberti, who has said he was told the theme was “punk.”)
“Oh please,” Liriano said. “Demna doesn’t put out one image that he hasn’t approved. Demna is not only the creative director, he’s driving all the imagery behind the campaigns. To blame a production company is nuts.”
In this image from Balenciaga's scrapped Spring '23 campaign, Isabelle 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
The hidden child porn documents
After the BDSM bears fiasco, eagle-eyed critics started examining the rest of Balenciaga's campaigns closely.
They soon discovered that in the background of an image from the Spring '23 campaign was a printout of a Supreme Court ruling on whether or not internet child porn can be legally considered free speech.
a printout of a Supreme Court ruling on whether or not internet child porn can be legally considered ‘free speech’
https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/20582471/inside-balenciaga-paedo-scandal-fashion/
https://people.com/style/balenciaga-campaign-controversy-timeline/
https://nypost.com/2022/11/30/balenciaga-bdsm-drama-sparks-child-devil-worship-conspiracy-theory/ ‘CONSPIRACY THEORY’
In recent days, right-wing conspiracy theorists latched on to and circulated photos taken out of context from the Instagram account of stylist Lotta Volkova that portrayed scenes of violence and satanic images. According to a representative, Volkova hasn’t worked with Balenciaga since 2017.
https://www.thecut.com/2022/11/what-to-know-about-the-balenciaga-ad-scandal.html
https://nypost.com/2022/11/30/balenciaga-bdsm-drama-sparks-child-devil-worship-conspiracy-theory/
Perhaps the most devilish element, per the clip, is the roll of yellow Balenciaga tape with the label’s name misspelled with two As, forming “Baal.”
Baal was reportedly an ancient fertility god worshipped in many ancient Middle Eastern communities, including the Canaanites, who were infamous for sacrificing children.
“Lastly, one of the dolls with a padlock around its neck. Coincidence?” the narrator teases in the video while zooming into a shackled plush bear in BDSM-style garb.
“Oh please,” Liriano said. “Demna doesn’t put out one image that he hasn’t approved. Demna is not only the creative director, he’s driving all the imagery behind the campaigns. To blame a production company is nuts.”
I want to know in my studio who they think is the potential consumer of something we’re working on.
One of the most important qualities I look for in my collaborators is the absence of fear. It’s about not being afraid to express something that might not be accepted. I love people with a point of view, hopefully not similar to mine, and I greatly appreciate the fact that they stand behind it because they believe in it and are not afraid. For my team I take people from schools and never from other brands because it’s harder for me to work with them as they need to disconnect and then reconnect to a new creative mentality. So most people from my team come either directly from a school before they graduate or else I take them in the middle of their studies and they basically learn in the process. But the most important quality is the lack of fear because fear blocks creativity, and if you’re trying to please, you’re never going to make it. You should not please. Fashion should not please.
https://www.inverse.com/input/style/balenciaga-gay-hoodie-gap-logo-pride-collection
“I’m gay. I grew up in a society where I couldn’t have worn that, and there are places in the world that you cannot today,” Gvasalia told Vogue upon unveiling the collection.
https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/balenciaga-paris-fashion-week-fall-winter-2022-show/index.html
Balenciaga's latest show was a comment on climate crisis, virtual reality and the war in Ukraine
As the brand's latest creative director, Demna has been influenced by his friendship with Russian designer Lotta Volkova, who worked alongside him at the Spanish label until 2018. She has previously posted violent, gore-filled images on her Instagram of dolls and children, including one of a child taped to a chair.
From her Instagram
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This visual 'art' is a creation from a depraved and mentally ill individual. No, this sort of 'art' is repugnant to normal people and should not be made public. It's NOT okay.
Art is a mirror or document of the time. It is also used in advertising because it can be powerful. This abomination is promoting depravity. The “artist” is should be locked up. There is nothing creative here, it’s depravity masquerading as art.