Kim Kardashian REACTS to Balenciaga's Controversial Ad

Balenciaga is dealing with the fallout of a large manner faux pas.

Days aft issuing an archetypal apology for its recent advertisement campaigns involving children, the luxury brand further addressed the controversies, admitting that mistakes were made.

"We powerfully condemn kid abuse; it was ne'er our intent to see it successful our narrative," the institution said successful a Nov. 28 statement. "The 2 abstracted advertisement campaigns successful question bespeak a bid of grievous errors for which Balenciaga takes responsibility."

The connection acknowledged that the archetypal campaign, a acquisition postulation campaign, featured children with plush carnivore bags dressed in what appeared to beryllium BDSM-inspired outfits.

"Our plush carnivore bags and the acquisition postulation should person not been featured with children," the connection continued. "This was a incorrect prime by Balenciaga, combined with our nonaccomplishment successful assessing and validating images. The work for this lies with Balenciaga alone."

The manner institution besides addressed the 2nd run for its Spring 2023 collection, which according to the brand, was meant to replicate a "business bureau environment," and included a photograph with a leafage successful the inheritance from a 2008 Supreme Court ruling which confirms the promotion of kid pornography is amerciable and not protected by state of speech.

Balenciaga said that portion "internal and outer investigations are ongoing," the institution volition beryllium taking several actions including, "closely revising, our enactment and corporate ways of working, reinforcing the structures astir our creative processes and validation steps and laying the groundwork with organizations who specialize successful kid extortion and aims astatine ending kid maltreatment and exploitation."

"We privation to larn from our mistakes and place ways we tin contribute," the connection concluded. "Balenciaga reiterates it sincere apologies for the discourtesy we person caused and extends its apologies to talents and partners."

On Nov. 22, after the campaigns went viral, Balenciaga removed the images and apologized "for immoderate offense" radical took from the photos of the kids with the plush bears successful the vacation advertisement and "for displaying unsettling documents" successful the outpouring ad.

Two days later, Kim Kardashian—who frequently collaborates with the luxury label—broke her soundlessness connected the scandal, saying she was "shocked and outraged by the caller Balenciaga campaigns."

"As a parent of four, I person been shaken by those disturbing images," she wrote connected her Instagram Story connected Nov. 27. "The information of children indispensable beryllium held with the highest respect and thing against it should person nary spot successful our society-period."

However, the 42-year-old—who shares North West, 9, Saint West, 6, Chicago West, 4, and Psalm West, 3, with ex Kanye West—said appreciated Balenciaga's archetypal apology and believes the marque understands "the seriousness of the contented and volition marque the indispensable measurement for this to ne'er hap again."

Kim besides said she is presently "reevaluating" her relationship with the brand, "basing it disconnected their willingness to judge accountability for thing that should person ne'er happened to statesman with—and the actions I americium expecting to spot them instrumentality to support children."