Who is sipping coffee, and who is picking up a pipe that accidentally slipped to the ground in the passage toHourglass. Who takes the dog out and who does the shopping inside; who is calling, who is waiting, who is looking at each other from head to toe with snobbery and discretion. This is Parisian life a la Balenciaga – very dark, very couture, sometimes street – to live feverishly on avenue George V, front number 10, between an unpredictable downpour (?) and Sous le Ciel de Paris Edith Piaf remixed by BFRND. Balenciaga’s latest pop idea is the condensation of comforting designer normality, a summary of the usual gestures to be abandoned according to the vocabulary of the first Demna, in a play of disproportion and opulent underground, on a stage off the podium. There Balenciaga Cruise 2024 Collection it looks like this with short film 5 minutes longinclining non-conformism to caution (necessarily after the stumbling block and the ensuing mass indignation of last year), according to an operation not new to Georgian creativity, which repeatedly leaned towards changing traditional fashion show dynamics what we are used to.
Is it Balenciaga ready-to-wear, which, although the prerogative of a select few, brings together the multifaceted human? Or is it the theater of fashion, so true to reality but alienating, capable of sowing doubts about who these passers-by are and what they do with their eyes hidden by enveloping masks? Whatever the message Balenciaga collection Capital B it’s already a virus, even if perhaps far from the hectic and pop conceptual (and politically implied) spirit that Gvasalia taught us to be. Nevertheless, Balenciaga’s army of anonymous passers-by parades in front of the door of the house’s headquarters – where Cristobal opened it in 1937 – with a wardrobe of 44 looks with a very recognizable silhouette. These are slender coats and disproportionate down jackets, curly jackets and oversized trench coats, total denim suits and the ubiquitous hoodies with a strictly tucked-up hood.
But there are also pleated dresses in vibrant Oxygen red for a collection with little to no color, as well as dresses with sequins coming out at the end to light up a gloomy Parisian afternoon.
Disrespectful note? However, there is and mainly rests on the accessories. Biker pants, for example, end in stilettos from the point up, and towels become skirts, the protagonists of an alienating and quirky urban layering. And if multicolored striped maxi shopper – in tandem with shopping bags, for a sparkly occasion – become the new fetish of spring fashion, the XL width maxi clutch will become an indispensable armpit for a big evening.
Among the most surreal objects; texan walletsimilar in all respects to the boots of the mythical West, e V Mules RomeoA novelty of the season that pushes the square toe to the limit of portability. Capital B This is true; a set of pieces deluxe– the fundamentals of clothing that Balenciaga calls, not surprisingly, Guardsman’s Robe– and streetwear bordering on the absurd, an impracticable and therefore tangible sign of the first Demna. As Sarah Mauer wrote fashion runway: “Is it beautiful or stupid?”. Your verdict. We, after the “garbage bag” for 1800 euros, see in a towel to be wrapped around the waist, a new must. As for the presentation, it will not be the apocalyptic scenery of the past, between mud and water, that will flood the front row, but, on the other hand, “crime” required an act of pain, and although fashion is not “entertainment”, since, in the words of Gvasalia himself, even the commotion on George V Street has already received its fair share of media coverage. And in today’s fashion, alas, virality is a very serious matter.
Source: Elle