01 BALENCIAGA
Defined by unique pieces handmade to the highest standards for private clients, haute couture offers fashion designers an avenue to push their creative limits. And few designers take their ideas as far as Balenciaga’s single-monikered Demna.
Held at the brand’s Parisian salon, Balenciaga’s Fall/Winter 2023 haute couture presentation seemed to revolve around the concept of things not being what they seem.
Even as Demna paid tribute to the house’s late founder Cristobal Balenciaga with a reimagined version of one of the latter’s designs, he also merged the brand’s fine-tailoring codes with modern verve: Using hand-applied brushstrokes to achieve trompe l’oeil effects, traditional fabrics such as linen-canvas panels were made to look like they had textures such as houndstooth weaves, denim, and fur.
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