By Peter Partoll
Published November 27, 2022
CORRECTION, Nov. 30, 2022: An earlier version of this article incorrectly linked Balenciaga’s lawsuit to an ad campaign featuring children holding teddy bear handbags. The suit was filed in connection with a separate campaign that used adult models. The article, its title and the featured image have been changed to reflect that fact.
A pair of advertising campaigns have left a major fashion house apologizing to its customers — and one has even sparked a lawsuit against the producers who made it.
The New York Post reported Friday that the fashion company Balenciaga had pulled a disgusting advertising campaign that included images of what appear to be young girls with Balenciaga bags shaped like teddy bears that are clad in bondage outfits.
Another Balenciaga ad campaign that showed a handbag sitting on a desk littered with documents, including references to Supreme Court case law regarding child pornography, has led to a $25 million lawsuit.
According to Fox News, one of the cases was U.S. v. Williams, a 2008 decision that upheld the criminalization of child pornography.
However, according to the report, the “visible portion of that court document in the photo has a reference to another Supreme Court case, Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, in which the court struck down a portion of the Child Pornography Prevention Act (CPPA) of 1996 and said that virtual child pornography is protected speech.”
The Ashcroft decision stated in part that outlawing computer-generated images of children engaging in sexual acts “because pedophiles may use virtual child pornography to seduce children runs afoul of the principle that speech within the rights of adults to hear may not be silenced completely in an attempt to shield children from it.”
In response to the outcry, Balenciaga filed a lawsuit against the production company that made the ad with the SCOTUS reference, North Six Inc., and the set designer, the Post reported.
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