^ Right?
This is editorial is a tongue in cheek commentary on the fact that everyone seems to be pointing out: that the sexualization of youth is grotesque. I don't think anyone at VP really wants to dress seven-year-olds in Balmain any more than VI wanted women to slather their dresses in oil and writhe on the beach. Saying the girls are too young etc. is about as insightful as saying that the girl in the first picture is wearing a gold dress; the obsceneness of this all is the point. It's clearly commentary, about precisely the same thing that, say, Skins, or Toddlers in Tiaras, revels in.