No, Internet, This Is Not a 'Human Skin Jacket' from Balenciaga - Snopes.com

In aboriginal December 2022, amid an ongoing public furor implicit lurid advertisement campaigns for the manner location Balenciaga that featured kid exploitation and BDSM themes, societal media users shared what appeared to beryllium a Balenciaga advertisement promoting a men's overgarment made of quality skin.

In reality, however, the photograph utilized successful the "ad" was past astir 5 years old, had thing to bash with Balenciaga oregon immoderate Balenciaga product, and had been deceptively edited to see the company's logo.

(Twitter screenshot)

The picture, which did not primitively incorporate a Balenciaga logo, was taken from an Etsy page active successful January 2017 that offered faux human-skin garments created by Australian peculiar effects creator Kayla Arena. Here are a fewer of the products that were advertised connected the leafage astatine the time: 

(Kayla Arena's Etsy Page, January 2017)

Arena uses latex and silicone to simulate quality tegument successful her creations, which much precocious person included fake-but-real-looking corpses and assemblage parts she constructed for the Guillermo Del Toro fearfulness anthology TV bid "Cabinet of Curiosities." 

We emphasize, again, that nary of these creations were made utilizing existent quality flesh, and nary of them are connected successful immoderate mode with Balenciaga. 

Sources: 

Guillermo Del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities. Double Dare You (DDY), Netflix, Exile Entertainment, 2022.

KaylaArenafx connected Etsy. 26 Jan. 2017, https://web.archive.org/web/20170126071904/https://www.etsy.com/shop/KaylaArenafx.

McNeely, Kelly. "Feast Your Eyes On These Creepy and Cool Ed Gein Inspired Creations!" IHorror, 24 May 2017, https://ihorror.com/ed-gein-inspired-creations/.

Paton, Elizabeth, et al. "When High Fashion and QAnon Collide." The New York Times, 28 Nov. 2022. NYTimes.com, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/28/style/balenciaga-campaign-controversy.html.

"This $1,200 'Human Flesh' Jacket Takes Fashion To Disturbing New Levels." Elite Daily, https://www.elitedaily.com/elite/human-flesh-jacket-disturbing-fashion-levels/1766584. Accessed 3 Dec. 2022.