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Balenciaga Royal welcome for debut built around female empowerment
The Guardian
|October 06, 2025
New names at Dior and Chanel have generated the most noise at this Paris fashion week, but it was Balenciaga’s debut that brought the media storm with a front row coup: the Duchess of Sussex, making her first European appearance in three years.
On Saturday night in Paris, Dior, Chanel - and Lauren Sánchez, who also attended the show - were all outdone for razzle-dazzle.
Until that point, the mood music around Pierpaolo Piccioli’s debut had felt relatively serene. Balenciaga is a venerated house, and Piccioli a world-leading designer. Meghan’s choice of Balenciaga - a French house founded by a Spaniard with an Italian designer - was notable for the absence of any links to Britain.
This story is from the October 06, 2025 edition of The Guardian.
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