After apologizing for its bondage teddy bear campaign and blaming a second scandal involving child porn on a set designer, embattled is yet to answer for a third concern from its recently axed ad campaigns - a prominently placed book which celebrates the artist Michael Borremans. Borremans' work is consistently dark and bordering on the occult; he depicts castrated toddlers and headless models in some of his works. While Balenciaga is yet to explain how one of his books ended up in the background of its Spring '23 campaign, it blamed other props - namely a printout of a ruling on child porn - on the set designer Nicholas Des Jardins and North Six.
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