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Lotta Volkova, Stylist Linked To Balenciaga, Frequently Posted Images Of Child Abuse And Gore, And Is Friends With Alleged Pedophile Gosha Rubchinskiy

BY NICOLE DOMINIQUE

Nov 27th 2022· 7 min read

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Lotta Volkova is a stylist who has been linked to Balenciaga's creative director, Demna Gvasalia, and alleged pedophile Gosha Rubchinskiy. The Russian-born fashion consultant has made her Instagram account private after her posts depicting child abuse, gore, and sexualized teddy bears resurfaced.

*This article is intended for readers 18 years old and older.*

Balenciaga caused public outrage after the release of their ad campaign that featured children holding stuffed animals in sexual gear. In addition, some of the photos on Balenciaga's website contained inappropriate documents and material that seemed to glorify cannibalism and pedophilia. Now, one individual named Lotta Volkova is facing backlash for her disturbing taste in the depictions of child abuse.

Who Is Lotta Volkova and Her Crew?

Lotta Volkova doesn’t only have links to Balenciaga – she's also worked with some of the biggest name brands including Vogue, Adidas, Chanel, and Jean Paul Gaultier. While she claims that she hasn’t worked with Balenciaga in years, Volkova has a close relationship with Balenciaga's creative director and Vetement's founder, Demna Gvasalia. She's also friends with Gosha Rubchinskiy, a Russian streetwear designer, who allegedly pressured a 16-year-old boy to send nudes of himself. The trio seems to be a tight-knit group, and is even credited as the "inventors" of the post-Soviet style fashion. 

Volkova credits her success to "lucky and random encounters." She met English fashion designer Gareth Pugh at a nightclub in England and befriended Gosha Rubchinskiy. She says she met Demna Gvasalia through a mutual friend and started working with him "by chance." "One day, he showed me the photos from his collection. I found his clothes super, but not the styling. So, Demna asked me to be involved. We have been working together since 2015. I'm a brand consultant, I take care of collections and fashion shows, from casting to style supervision," Volkova said in an interview. 

What Volkova didn’t mention in her past interviews, however, is how her group seems to gravitate toward child pornography. Demna posted about it on his Instagram back in 2016: “Someone wrote that Lotta (Balenciaga stylist), Gosha, and I grew up on child pornography and radiation from Chernobyl, which is why we’re so f*cked up." In addition to Demna’s Instagram posts, Volkova’s pictures on her social media have also emerged, photos that have the same aura as Balenciaga’s controversial ad campaign – but be warned, as these images might be distressing to some readers.

Volkova References The Shining 

Volkova shares one image of the elevator scene in the movie The Shining and tags her friend, Gosha. If you don't know much about this Stanley Kubrick film, here's the summary: A little boy named Danny has "the shine" – psychic abilities that he's too young to understand. His family heads to a hotel for the winter, and this hotel tries to take Danny's "shine" away by consuming him. If you know anything about Gosha Rubchinskiy, this fact should raise some red flags. 

Gosha often "casted'' young men through Instagram, going as far as to ask minors to send photos of themselves shirtless in their underwear. "Gosha has been doing casting by Instagram for many years now,” Gosha’s representative told GQ. “It is a normal practice nowadays. We always ask to [sic] face photos, in full length and topless. Sometimes photos in underwear are required in order to understand the volume of hips.” 

Interestingly, Gucci – who owns Balenciaga – launched a campaign titled "Kubrick" and used The Shining as inspiration for their photoshoots as well.

Volkova Often Posted Photos with Young Men of Unknown Ages

Perhaps Volkova is friends with Gosha because they share the same affinity for young men. Volkova seemed to love posing with young men – who appear to be minors – in pictures.

She Loved Posting Photos of Child Abuse and Teddy Bears 

According to these screenshots by one anonymous investigator (@curioslight), Volkova shared an image of a room full of blood, a child with their innards exposed, and a little girl taped to a chair. Some of her other images of children were eerie as well, often depicting children in pain and/or in fear. Others are worse: Some of her photos depict babies being eaten.

Just like Balenciaga's Gift Shop campaign, the stylist posted images of herself with teddy bears, even sexualizing them. Users believe it alludes to the "pedo bear," a cartoon bear that's associated with pedophiles. Gosha commented on one of these posts with a wink. Volkova also posted an image of Moloch, a Canaanite deity associated with child sacrifices. 

Volkova Appeared To Be into Bondage and Rabbits

Before Volkova made her Instagram private, her page included images of people in bondage gear and rabbits – both of which were found in Balenciaga’s campaigns. Some users believe the white rabbit is the symbol of adrenochrome's chemical structure, a chemical compound created by the oxidation of adrenaline.

She Glamorized Cannibalism and Satanic Imagery

In one photo, Volkova is seen wearing a band shirt of “Cannibal Corpse” at a church. In another painting she shares, there’s a monstrous bear in the process of consuming a girl. A third image features a creepy, dark, moldy room with a goat head on an upside-down pentagram.

She Posted Pictures of Sex Rooms

Volkova posted photos of private rooms that users believe were used for sex. "Below are bath houses she would take young boys and have orgies, this boy(left pic) looks like she has brought him with her to the U.S.," one user speculates. "The 2nd picture is why is the hashtag sorryputin, why and sorry for what ? Taking the youth from Russia or doing something bad to the youth ?"

Volkova and Demna Break Their Silence

Balenciaga issued a statement on social media following the controversy. “We apologize for displaying unsettling documents in our campaign,” Balenciaga wrote on Instagram. “We take this matter very seriously and are taking legal action against the parties responsible for creating the set and including unapproved items for our Spring 23 campaign photoshoot.” They added, “We strongly condemn the abuse of children in any form. We stand for children's safety and well-being.”

While these findings are alarming, Volkova states that she hasn’t been involved with Balenciaga since 2017. As reported by Newsweek, one spokesperson for Volkova said she “has not worked with Balenciaga or its team since 2017, and she has in no way participated in the brand's recent Instagram or advertising campaigns.” They added that Volkova “condemns the abuse of children in any form.” 

Demna has also addressed the controversies, writing, “We sincerely apologize for any offense our Holiday Campaign may have caused. Our plush bear bags should not have been featured with children in this campaign. We have immediately removed the campaign from all platforms.” Still, the stylist and Demna have yet to address the odd similarities between Balenciaga's recent campaigns and Volkova's taste in "art."

With all of these disturbing images resurfacing, it makes sense why people believe that Volkova and Demna are to blame for Balenciaga's unsettling advertisements. Surprisingly, Balenciaga has decided to file a lawsuit against the production company that's apparently responsible for the ad campaign. The luxury brand is currently suing North Six Inc. and set designer Nicholas Des Jardins for $25 million dollars. North Six has declined to comment on the suit, but one source has said that the company denies involvement with the production of Balenciaga's Gift Shop campaign.

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CEO Of Balenciaga's Parent Company Owns Site That Sells Child Sex Mannequins With Erect Penises On Their Face

BY GINA FLORIO

Nov 30th 2022· 3 min read

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#BalenciagaGate has been trending for over a week now and the story just keeps getting creepier and creepier. The CEO of Balenciaga's Parent Company, Kering, owns an auction website where disturbing child sex mannequins are sold at an exorbitant price.

*This article is intended for readers 18 and older.*

Balenciaga was dragged across the internet when the fashion brand released a campaign featuring young girls holding teddy bears wearing bondage gear and standing on top of court papers from a landmark Supreme Court case that focused on child pornography. The brand apologized for the images and pulled the campaign from the internet, but there are many more disturbing revelations of the brand and its long history with content that features child sex abuse and pedophilia. There is even more information coming out showing how depraved Balenciaga's roots are. It's parent company, Kering, is run by a man named François-Henri Pinault, who is married to Salma Hayek, and he owns an auction website that sells disgusting "art" of young children in sexual situations.

CEO of Balenciaga's Parent Company Owns Site That Sells Child Sex Mannequins with Erect Penises on Their Face

It was revealed that Balenciaga is associated with various people who seem to have an obsession with art that depicts pedophilia and even cannibalism. Balenciaga stylist Lotta Volkova has posted many photos on her Instagram of children in distressing, sexual, or even violent situations and she's close friends with Balenciaga creative director Demna Gvasalia, who once told Vice that he and Lotta "grew up on child pornography."

The plot only thickens when you look at Balenciaga's parent company, Kering, which also owns Gucci, Alexander McQueen, Saint Laurent, Bottega Veneta, and more. Kering's CEO is billionaire François-Henri Pinault, who owns the famous Christie's auction house. The website features many different types of art, including a series of art pieces by brothers Jake and Dinos Chapman. This series includes child sex mannequins that are extremely disturbing.

One piece of art, which costs $140,000, is called F*ck Face. It's a male toddler with an erect penis in place of his nose and an anus in place of his mouth. The piece of art shows the boy walking with a large brown t-shirt on and purple sneakers. Another piece of art with the same title F*ck Face shows an adolescent girl standing completely naked with the same genitalia in place of her nose and mouth. She's wearing nothing but a pair of black sneakers.

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There's another piece of art called Zygotic that shows 5 naked girls who look to be preteens; their bodies are connected and they share legs and arms. They have long, wavy brown hair and are wearing nothing but black sneakers.

Yet another disturbing image shows a young child with two heads, and their faces are joined by what appears to be a vagina. It's titled Two Faced C*nt and it sold for more than $111,000. There are many other pieces of art by the Chapman brothers that show severed body parts, blood, and gore.

The images are incredibly disturbing and hint at pedophilia and child sex abuse. Social media influencers have been sharing these photos and videos across various platforms to expose the deep roots of occultism and pedophilia in the fashion world and Hollywood. Hardly any celebrities have spoken out about these revelations. Kim Kardashian released a milquetoast statement expressing her disappointment with the Balenciaga campaign but ended it by saying that she hasn't decided yet if she wants to cut ties with the brand. Celebrities are all too quick to speak up about various social justice issues that affect marginalized groups of people, but they don't seem to care very much about the exploitation of innocent children.

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Balenciaga Facing Backlash For Advertising Kids With Teddy Bears In Bondage Gear

BY NICOLE DOMINIQUE

Nov 20th 2022· 2 min read

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Balenciaga has angered users online after their recent Gift Shop campaign featured children holding stuffed animals in bondage gear. In another photo by the brand, a document – presumably from the Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition case – is spotted under a purse.

Luxury brand Balenciaga is facing backlash for featuring kids holding stuffed animals dressed in – what looks to be – bondage gear. Many Twitter users have called out the company's recent campaign photos, with some even noticing a strange document tucked under a Balenciaga bag in one of them. Based on the text written on the paper, the document is presumed to be from the Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, a case that established virtual child pornography is protected by the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech.  

The Court in Ashcroft concluded that the Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996 (CPPA) violated free speech. The CPPA previously prevented the distribution and possession of pornography in virtual images and films where adults were depicted as minors. 

Others noticed one teddy bear being held by a child had “panda eyes,” a term that is known to describe the bruising of the skin around the eyes as a result of injury. “Balanciaga’s homepage. •child with a BDSM stuffed animal with PANDA EYES •WHITE RABBIT on the bed • that picture of the bag looks innocent right? — zoom in & it’s what appears to be court documents arguing about some type of s*xual misconduct and p*rnography… ???” writes @StormEllimac.

Just recently, Twitter banned the hashtag associated with child pornography on the platform, and the action has been credited to Elon Musk and his new team. Balenciaga left Twitter not too long after Musk's acquisition. “What is probably happening here is: 1) Twitter is being stricter about sexually explicit material involving children, so 2) Balenciaga got told they can’t post their fetish-bondage-teddy bear shit. Being very committed to the bit they 3) deleted their Twitter…” speculates @xy_Wizard.

Balenciaga was founded in 1918 in Spain by Cristóbal Balenciaga. The brand has some of the most famous women in Hollywood as ambassadors, including Kim Kardashian and Alexa Demie. Balenciaga has not yet addressed the recent reaction following their campaigns, and they have since removed the pictures of children from their Instagram. However, Balenciaga's Creative Director, Demna Gvasalia, still proudly boasts his work on his social media page.

Update 1/22/22: Balenciaga has issued an apology following the controversy.

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Julia Fox Claims There's No Pedophilia Problem In Hollywood And That The Issue Is Actually Just Men—Here's Why She Is Dead Wrong

BY GINA FLORIO

Nov 29th 2022· 6 min read

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The hashtag #BalenciagaGate has been trending for days after the reveal of the fashion brand's latest campaign that featured child sex abuse content, but model Julia Fox insists that there is no problem of pedophilia in Hollywood. The problem is actually men.

Balenciaga released a fashion campaign last week that featured young girls holding teddy bears that were dressed in bondage gear, standing on top of papers that were from a Supreme Court case about child pornography. This sparked an outrage across the internet and become national news. The brand was pressured into apologizing and taking down the campaign (and even wiping out their whole Instagram account). But it didn't even stop there. The brand released yet another campaign featuring art books that display naked toddlers covered in blood playing with severed body parts and dystopian photos that give a nod to cannibalism.

Many people went down the rabbit hole to discover that a stylist for Balenciaga named Lotta Volkova has a long history of posting photos on her Instagram that feature child sex abuse, cannibalism, bondage (sometimes of minors), occultism and pedophilia. In fact, she has posted many images of teddy bears in bondage that look exactly like the Balenciaga campaign from hell. She is close friends with the creative director of Balenciaga, who has said in a previous interview that he, Lotta, and another friend and stylist Gosha Rubchinskiy "grew up on child pornography and radiation from Chernobyl, which is why we’re so f*cked up."

It becomes clearer every day that Balenciaga's campaign was no accident and that the brand has a history of either posting inappropriate content involving minors or employing/hiring people who seem to be obsessed with this kind of child sex abuse content. However, throughout all these discoveries and the reasonable amount of outrage that has been directed at Balenciaga and the many celebrities who have remained silent on this issue, model and socialite Julia Fox claims that we've got it all wrong.

Julia Fox Says There's No Pedophilia Problem In Hollywood and That Men Are Actually the Problem

Julia is active on her TikTok and she boasts 1.4 million followers. Two days ago she posted a video claiming that people are getting upset about what goes on in Hollywood for no reason whatsoever—because according to Julia, there is no pedophilia issue that is unique to Hollywood.

"You guys love saying 'Hollyweird.' All the pedophiles in 'Hollyweird,'" she says. "Listen up, f*ckfaces. There's pedophiles in every industry. You wanna go be a chef? There will probably be some abusers over there. You wanna go be a teacher? Abusers over there. You wanna go be an engineer? Abusers over there. This isn't an issue with Hollywood. This isn't an issue with the fashion world. This isn't an issue with celebrities. This is an issue with men, g*damnit! Men!"

By the end of the video she was screaming loudly into the phone. The TikTok has 3.6 million views already with almost 700,000 comments. Most of the users in the comment section agree with her and point to other industries where they see pedophilia.

On the same day, Julia posted another video in response to a user asking her for her thoughts on Balenciaga. She responded that she felt sick to her stomach when she saw the photos, but she said that none of the children were harmed in that shoot. And then she proceeded to talk about the Church (presumably the Catholic Church) and claimed that "millions of children" are sexually abused every day in the Church. Not only is that statistic entirely untrue, it's completely off topic and a classic case of whataboutism. She also briefly mentions that we should be focusing on the men who are doing the abusing, because this isn't an issue with women in her eyes.

It's not an irrelevant detail that Julia is a Hollywood socialite who works in the fashion industry as both a model and a designer. Why is it that so many of the celebrities are either ignoring the child sex abuse content that's being exposed in Hollywood or they're doing their absolute best to turn our attention away from it?

Julia Fox Is Dead Wrong about Balenciaga—Here's Why

One can certainly agree with the concept that pedophilia is sadly present everywhere, because pedophiles live and work amongst us. However, there is pedophilia and child sex abuse right in front of our eyes and there are far too many celebrities, including and especially Julia, who keep trying to divert our attention away from it and point to something else. Of course it's upsetting and tragic whenever children are sexually abused, whether it's at a church, in a school, at a daycare, or wherever else it takes place.

But Julia and all of her other Hollywood buddies need to stop desperately trying to divert our attention away from Balenciaga because there is very clearly a coordinated, intentional effort to exploit children. More importantly, the massive difference between Hollywood and the other spaces where pedophilia happens is, none of these other industries advertise, promote, and attempt to normalize pedophilia the same way that Hollywood does. You don't see advertisements or social media posts from major brands in the food industry or the engineering field (to point out the examples that Julia gave) that glamorize and try to normalize little girls with bondage teddy bears. You also don't see any Catholic Churches posting photos on their website featuring young children in a photo shoot that refers to child pornography.

Of course it's wrong and unforgivable when children are sexually abused, no matter the setting. But at this point, it's pointless to even try and deny that there is a uniquely horrific problem with pedophilia happening in Hollywood. It keeps getting covered up time and time again because some of the most powerful people in the world run circles in Hollywood, and the revelation of Balenciaga's Satanic and pedophilic history is an extremely important moment in our culture because it's one of the only times that mass amounts of people finally see this industry for what it really is and how it preys on children—all in the name of art and fashion.

Julia is also dead wrong to pin all of these issues on men and men alone. The Balenciaga campaign did not turn out the way it did because men are screwed up in ways that women aren't. If this is an issue exclusive to men, then why are figures like Lotta Volkova, Marina Abramovic, and Ghislaine Maxwell exposed for either producing child sex abuse content or grooming minors to be sexually abused? Surely there are also many other women who are involved in pedophilia.

This response by Julia is not only disappointing, but it's to be expected. Hollywood socialites will never admit in a million years that their industry has a uniquely disturbing issue with exploiting children and normalizing sexual abuse of minors. Julia Fox is just one of many celebrities who loves to virtue signal about various social justice issues while refusing to acknowledge one of the most heinous human rights issues happening on American soil today.

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Creative Director Of Balenciaga, Demna Gvasalia, Is Ambassador Of President Zelenskyy's Fundraising Platform, United24

BY NICOLE DOMINIQUE

Nov 30th 2022· 3 min read

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Balenciaga is one of the biggest name brands in the world, so it makes sense that they would be connected to some of the most famous celebrities – and politicians, it seems. This year, Demna became the ambassador of the fundraising platform initiated by the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

United24 was launched on May 5, 2022 to act as the "main venue for collecting charitable donations in support of Ukraine," as stated on their official website. So far, the charity has raised nearly $233 million. Demna Gvasalia, creative director of Balenciaga – who some people believe is behind the brand's recent disturbing Gift Shop campaign – became an ambassador for United24 just two months after its launch. President Zelenskyy himself thanked Demna's support of Ukraine during the Balenciaga Winter '22 show in March 2022, when the creative director shared his personal experience as a refugee.

"Thank you for your support, it is very much appreciated. It is extremely important to keep the world's attention on Ukraine in order to help rebuild our country," said Zelenskyy. The Balenciaga show featured models who strutted in the most lavish, designer outfits through fake snowfall. But it wasn't about fashion, according to Demna. “Fashion doesn’t matter now. The message must be love and peace, and fashion has to assume a strong position in this crisis," he says. 

Demna, who is a refugee from Georgia, shared his thoughts on being an ambassador on his Instagram in July: "I am honored to become a United24 ambassador. I know very well and feel the pain that Ukrainians are going through. I’ve been thinking a lot about how I can help Ukraine and all the refugees who want to return home. That is why I decided to focus on the humanitarian direction 'Ukraine Recovery'. And the special sweatshirt that we created at Balenciaga will be a kind of message of support for Ukraine."

Thanks to Demna's partnership with Zelenskyy and United24, Balenciaga created long-sleeved shirts depicting the Ukrainian flag and the country's coat of arms. For $261.80, you, too, can help Ukrainian refugees. 

Of course, those who are now critical of Demna were quick to question him and Zelenskyy’s actions: “Oh wow Creative Director for Balenciaga became the ambassador for Ukraine Recovery program designed to help temporarily displaced people,” writes @Oleyb3. “So the guy who rubber stamped the bdsm child photos was helping Ukraine with their homeless? Does that include kids?” 

This month, Balenciaga fueled outrage for featuring children in inappropriate campaign photos. Their other pictures displayed documents discussing virtual child pornography and books on disturbing subjects. The luxury brand has since issued an apology and filed a lawsuit against the company North Six Inc. and Nicholas Des Jardins LLC, who they say are responsible for the photos. However, North Six and a representative for Nicholas Des Jardins LLC have stated they were not involved with the production of the images of teddy bears in bondage gear.

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