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Kim Kardashian becomes Balenciaga brand ambassador -  one year after label's scandal over BDSM child images left star 'shaken and disgusted'


Kim Kardashian has been named as Balenciaga's new brand ambassador - one year after the brand sparked outrage with an ad t showing kids posing alongside BDSM-themed items.

'I have been quiet for the past few days, not because I haven't been shocked and outraged by the recent Balenciaga campaigns, but because I wanted an opportunity to speak to their team to understand for myself how this could have happened,' the Los Angeles-born celebrity said in a statement on her Instagram page. Balenciaga, which is popular with A-list celebrities including the likes of Kim Kardashian - has deleted two shocking images showing two young girls holding a teddy bear in bondage style gear on the gift shop section of its website One of the ad's photos contained an excerpt from the 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

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