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Internet technology, enabling the far reaches of online retailers and social media platforms, has created previously unimaginable ways for trends to be identified, marketed, and sold immediately. Trend-setting styles are easily displayed and communicated online to attract customers. Posts on Instagram or Facebook can quickly increase awareness about new trends in fashion, which subsequently may create high demand for specific items or brands, new "buy now button" technology can link these styles with direct sales. Balenciaga has directly addressed the controversy regarding its latest ad campaign, which features plush bears in leather harnesses and children in the background as well as court documents pertaining to a well-publicised child pornography case. In a grovelling statement the Kering-owned luxury house said it wants to learn from its mistakes and... Released within the last month, the campaigns caused an uproar that led the brand to pull both, sue the creative agenc...