Questions remain about elite fashion house Balenciaga’s scandalous ads featuring teddy bears in S&M bondage gear, despite a series of apologies, each more groveling than the last. Balenciaga has dropped a $25 million lawsuit blaming outside photographers and stylists for the disastrous, now-scrapped campaign. As anyone who has ever sat through big firms’ interminable meetings and approvals processes for every last detail in ad campaigns knows, it is risible to blame outside contractors.
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