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Kim Kardashian breaks silence on Balenciaga photo shoot controversy
Published by Toyin Owoseje, CNN Kim Kardashian says she is “re-assessing” her performing romantic relationship with Balenciaga after the luxury style residence featured small children cuddling teddy bears dressed in bondage gear in its hottest promotion campaign. The Skims founder and truth Tv star, who has been an ambassador for the style label, broke her silence Sunday following getting a barrage of messages from enthusiasts and commentators urging her to denounce the model. In comments posted to her social media, Kardashian said she experienced waited to discuss out “not since I have not been disgusted and outraged by the modern Balenciaga strategies, but since I required an chance to communicate…
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Backstage pass – a 90s fashion photo essay | Fashion
In the early 1990s, fashion shows were still quite a rough and ready business. Things weren’t quite as closely managed as they are these days, especially if you scratched beneath the surface. Jo Jones, now the Observer’s fashion editor, then a student at Central Saint Martins, managed to get access for herself and her fellow student Gavin Bond to go backstage at a Vivienne Westwood show in Paris. It was 1993 and they were there on a student trip. Somehow, the ever tenacious Jones had managed to negotiate access to ‘all areas’ through Vivienne Westwood’s mother who was working as part of her daughter’s team to prepare for the show.…