Creative director Demna Gvasalia dazzled with celebrity models, voluptuous tailoring and killer dressmaking.
The VIP arrivals were a show unto itself: Kris Jenner sweeping in behind alien sunglasses, her granddaughter North West in tow; drag star Alexis Stone channeling Jocelyn Wildenstein and dabbing his makeup with a sponge before snapping a selfie with Róisín Murphy; Offset posing for photos with Alton Mason in his bulging clown shoes, and Balenciaga chief executive officer Cédric Charbit telling Tracee Ellis Ross, only half jokingly, to kick the hems of the large finale gowns should...
The show cycled through Demna obsessions he zhuzhed up in staggering ways: giving a jeans jacket a head-engulfing collar; adding aluminum to oversize T-shirts so they can be crumpled into windswept forms, and pinching his menswear with corseted waists. Historians will surely point to this show for thrusting couture into the Insta-generation. After the show, guests were invited to tour twin Balenciaga Couture Stores where it’s possible to purchase some looks straight from the runway, and other limited-edition products. At the men’s store, Valentino’s Pierpaolo Piccioli threw on a crumpled hoodie and checked himself out in the mirror.
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