I was looking to purchase a pair of shoes that I had my eyes on for the last couple of months. They are the Balenciaga Speed Sock shoes. The first times I tried them on I knew that was a pair that I needed to own. But since I had already gone out of my budget for the month I did not over extend myself.
Sadly I see in the news about the ads that Balenciaga laced out for their products. I can not condone spending a cent with this company now after what they have allowed to happen. I also hear that they are now suing the ad agency claiming that they were not aware of what the agency was doing! Simple thinking will tell you that this is an utter lie.
Here you have an established multi-million dollar company who guards their designs and logo at every turn and you expect us to believe that you turned a blind eye to the ad campaign they were releasing? Go peddle that lie to another idiot, and even then they wont believe it.
So sadly I still like the shoes, but I will not purchase one single item from Balenciaga. I will find an alternative to those shoes. I will place my money with a company that cares. I also have a bone to pick with the parents of the kids that were used in the photo shoot. Were they not shown what they campaign was about or the subject matter?
I wont say to much about the parents as I not a parent with children who do ads. But I as a parent would have wanted to know what my child was going to do in this photo shoot and what was being portrayed. I am gonna take a wild guess and think that the parents were advised as to what would be happening in this ad campaign.
So Balenciaga, sorry but you lost one customer. I know one customer is not important to your company, and then again it is ok with me. I think someone else will like my money.
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