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It's the 20th anniversary of the Love Actually film this year and reading about it it was mentioned that Martine McCutcheon had Lyme disease, which weakened her body and resulted in her losing several babies, as she wasn't strong enough to carry them. She therefore turns down work that will take her away from her only child as she wants to enjoy seeing him grow.
A few years ago she said it was M E so I wonder if this has been a late diagnosis of Lyme disease which has become more well known in recent years.🤔
I sympathise with MM. My sister in law has Lyme disease which went undetected for years, she had to go private to get a diagnosis. The late diagnosis means she struggles a lot with joint and nerve pain, tiredness, excessive sleeping etc
 
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Let's all be horrified together! 😂

She has NEVER been a model.

Sorry if this has already been posted.

But very disturbing campaign shoot from
Balenciaga. Also must be concerns about the photographer? He has worked with National Geographic before but hopefully they won’t work with him again.


It’s interesting how they seem to be doing everything they can for ANY KIND of publicity. There are layers of problems with this new campaign. Many, many layers.
apparently the $1800 crisp packet purses didn’t get them the attention they were craving.
 
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I am horrified by the Balenciaga campaign. I cannot understand how it was allowed to happen. Who the hell signed it off? Who thought it was a good idea? It makes my stomach turn. I am simply baffled at why they did it.
 
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I am horrified by the Balenciaga campaign. I cannot understand how it was allowed to happen. Who the hell signed it off? Who thought it was a good idea? It makes my stomach turn. I am simply baffled at why they did it.
I don't understand why they are deflecting blame onto the photographer. Yes he created them (and that's a whole other problematic issue) but someone at the company would have to approve and sign off the concept, images and the campaign itself. He hasn't created a whole marketing campaign himself
 
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I am horrified by the Balenciaga campaign. I cannot understand how it was allowed to happen. Who the hell signed it off? Who thought it was a good idea? It makes my stomach turn. I am simply baffled at why they did it.
I’m wondering if the people behind the campaign thought they were being clever in sneaking child porn into an advert for handbags. Probably p.aedos belonging to some sort of secret sordid society.
 
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It's that shy girl from secondary school that was good at shotput and now works for the local council offices. Mavis was her name I think.
Married Julie from accounts the day same sex marriage was legalised.
 
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I don't understand why they are deflecting blame onto the photographer. Yes he created them (and that's a whole other problematic issue) but someone at the company would have to approve and sign off the concept, images and the campaign itself. He hasn't created a whole marketing campaign himself
Many people are responsible Balenciaga cannot get away with putting it onto the photographer I agree but he did create those images and he is lying in his statement imo

The photographer has made a statement on it he says he had no creative control and did not choose the models


However the concept of Balenciaga Gift Shop campaign is based off his longstanding Toy Stories series where objects are placed around a child and as per screenshot of deleted Instagram post you can see him in caption say that he picked Juno a little girl he has photographed before

He has been credited in Wallpaper magazine amongst others as being the photographer alongside the teddy bear photos why did he not ask for a correction he was happy to be credited before the backlash


There is another campaign with Bella Hadid and others in a office setting taken by another photographer that one features the court document waiting for a statement on that because lots more dark subject matter has been found hidden in the props
 

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The photographer has made a statement on it he says he had no creative control and did not choose the models


However the concept of Balenciaga Gift Shop campaign is based off his longstanding Toy Stories series where objects are placed around a child and as per screenshot of deleted Instagram post you can see him in caption say that he picked Juno a little girl he has photographed before

He has been credited in Wallpaper magazine amongst others as being the photographer alongside the teddy bear photos why did he not ask for a correction he was happy to be credited before the backlash


There is another campaign with Bella Hadid and others in a office setting taken by another photographer that one features the court document waiting for a statement on that because lots more dark subject matter has been found hidden in the props
Yes but he is still not directly responsible for giving the campaign itself the OK. Im.not denying there are issues with him and his ideas, but companies (especially big brands) don't just give creatives a clear reign to go ahead and create and release a campaign. Yes he took the photos, but if someone at the brand and/or advertising agency (however it works there) had told him they weren't appropriate/acceptable they wouldnt have seen the light of day. There would also be stylists involved and there are multiple sign off and approval points, with many people involved, he wasn't a rogue photographer acting on his own. He was commissioned by someone and that someone would have had to sign off

This to me sounds like a brand trying to be edgy and it back firing completely. The brand can't just deny any responsibility
 
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@Mark81 Think you are right they tried to push the envelope and it backfired I guess they thought they were free and clear after they had beat up looking models at their recent runway Kanye and Doja were there with fake cuts and bruises

Kering Group who owns Balenciaga has a foundation supposedly they do a lot for women facing violence but also glorify violence for fashion sales make it make sense
 
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Can't work Catherine Ryan out at all from the Louis interview. She seems quite a contradictory person and will just go with whatever she feels like at the time. It never touched on why she was obsessed with England either. Not sure it did her many favours.
 
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Yes but he is still not directly responsible for giving the campaign itself the OK. Im.not denying there are issues with him and his ideas, but companies (especially big brands) don't just give creatives a clear reign to go ahead and create and release a campaign. Yes he took the photos, but if someone at the brand and/or advertising agency (however it works there) had told him they weren't appropriate/acceptable they wouldnt have seen the light of day. There would also be stylists involved and there are multiple sign off and approval points, with many people involved, he wasn't a rogue photographer acting on his own. He was commissioned by someone and that someone would have had to sign off

This to me sounds like a brand trying to be edgy and it back firing completely. The brand can't just deny any responsibility
My biggest thing is where were the damn parents, I would have had my children toot sweet out of there!!
 
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I agree that the photographer isn’t fully to blame. Balenciaga are. But he must have known it was wrong and inappropriate?!

No normal man would see a child holding a bondage teddy and be anything other than uncomfortable and concerned.

He said 'I must stress that I was not entitled in whatsoever manner to neither chose the products, nor the models’

But on his Instagram post he said he did choose at least one of the child models? He’s a liar.
 
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Everyone involved in that campaign is receiving a hard side eye from me. How does the thought cross your mind in the 1st place?
 
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Can't work Catherine Ryan out at all from the Louis interview. She seems quite a contradictory person and will just go with whatever she feels like at the time. It never touched on why she was obsessed with England either. Not sure it did her many favours.
Her act reminds me of Sarah Silverman's - disarm the audience with her pretty princess / offbeat / airhead manner, then throw an outrageous grenade at them. She can cut accepted opinion on something to ribbons and then throw her hands up and say "kidding!!" so she gets away with it. It's clever, but she is on a tightrope with alleging these alleged allegations. If she worked in private on gathering testimonies and building a case, like the NYT did with Harvey Weinstein, then announced the name live, it'd probably be the best comedy/celebrity show ever. But as it is I think she's showboating.

PS I hope it is David Walliams or Russell Brand, creepy feckers from a Dickens novel dipped in LSD.
 
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Can't work Catherine Ryan out at all from the Louis interview. She seems quite a contradictory person and will just go with whatever she feels like at the time. It never touched on why she was obsessed with England either. Not sure it did her many favours.
She was a second-rate comic on the circuit who was in the right place at the right time to benefit from the 'all panel shows need at least one woman on them' policy. That wasn't her fault, but instead of being grateful for her good fortune she decided that she was a comic genius. Only Claudia Winkleman has more preening self-adoration than this cod-faced fraud. And doing stuff like advertising Wowcher isn't that wise if you want to maintain a 'cool' image.
 
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