Balenciaga Menswear

Were Cristobal Balenciaga and Demna Gvasalia to have met today, we imagine they would have discreetly congratulated each other on their feats. After all, both designers achieved similar things in their own rights: disrupting the fashion-scape by rebelling against the conventional show systems, using atypical models, subverting classic shapes, all while keeping out of the public eye. Demna sprinkles his counter-culture magic on the iconic French house for the second time this season and voila: AW17- a collision of fetish and couture, accentuated by pops of bright colour amid embellishment and logos. Culminating in a collection which pulsates with a 21st-century sophistication and simplicity that echoes Cristobal’s founding principle ‘elegance is elimination’, on adore Balenciaga.