Nicole Kidman has risked backlash by partnering with controversial fashion brand Balenciaga for its latest campaign launch.
The French-based fashion house sparked controversy in late 2022 after it was linked to a shoot that placed children alongside BDSM-themed items.
The saga prompted more revelations to emerge about Balenciaga’s previous campaigns, with fans discovering the Spring/Summer 2023 campaign featured pages from a US Supreme Court decision on child pornography laws.
While many celebrities publicly cut ties with Balenciaga in the aftermath, Nicole has ignored the controversy and made no mention of it on her social media or in interviews.
On Sunday, the Australian actress was officially announced Balenciaga’s newest celebrity ambassador during the brand’s Fall 2024 fashion show in Los Angeles.
Nicole Kidman has risked backlash by partnering with controversial fashion brand Balenciaga for its latest campaign launch. (She is pictured modelling a coat from brand’s Fall 2024 campaign)
Nicole attended the event dressed in a dramatic black coat paired with oversized pearl drop earrings, tights and pointy-toed heels.
Taking to Instagram, the Moulin Rouge! star shared a series of moody, black-and-white images of herself showing off her coat while posing against a plain concrete wall.
Nicole’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.
On Sunday, the Australian actress was officially announced Balenciaga’s newest celebrity ambassador during the brand’s Fall 2024 fashion show in Los Angeles
The Australian actress starred in the fashion brand’s Spring 2023 campaign, which was unveiled just as the BDSM scandal broke (pictured in Balenciaga in July 2022)
In the photo shoot the kids also appeared surrounded by empty wine and champagne glasses.
The distinctly adult themes immediately troubled many who asked why children had ever been used.
Balenciaga ignored the scandal at first and seemingly allowed the photographer who was involved, Gabriele Galimberti, to take the heat.
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.
Nicole is pictured wearing Balenciaga in July 2022
On the back of the bears scandal, many critics said it pointed to a troubling pattern within Balenciaga.
A Twitter user discovered 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’s own fact-checkers confirmed.
Balenciaga was quick to blame North Six, a production company that helped arrange the shoot, for the inclusion of those documents.
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.
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