Gucci Takes Heat for Ad With Harry Styles and a Toddler Mattress

Dec 19 2022 by The Daily Beast

 
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Kering, the parent company behind embattled luxury brand Balenciaga, is facing another PR dustup this week over backlash to a promotional image featuring Harry Styles for Gucci, another one of the company’s brands.

In the Gucci campaign, which was released on Nov. 2, Styles wears a teddy bear T-shirt while posing next to a toddler-sized mattress. Teddy bears were also at the center of the Balenciaga ad campaign firestorm that led many to denounce or boycott the...

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