Advertisment:Claim: A viral photo emblazoned with fashion house Balenciaga's logo shows a "human skin jacket" made and sold by the company. Rating: About this rating FalseIn early December 2022, amid an ongoing public furor over lurid ad campaigns for the fashion house Balenciaga that featured child exploitation and BDSM themes, social media users shared what appeared to be a Balenciaga ad promoting a men's jacket made of human skin. In reality, however, the photograph used in the "ad" was then roughly five years old, had nothing to do with Balenciaga or any Balenciaga product, and had been deceptively edited to bear the company's logo. We emphasize, again, that none of these creations were made using real human flesh, and none of them are connected in any way with Balenciaga. A similar deceptive social media campaign was built around a falsely labeled picture purporting to show Balenciaga stylist Lotta Volkova covered in blood and modeling a "satanic" outfit.

Source: New York Times December 03, 2022 20:29 UTC