Balenciaga Haute Couture F/W 2023.24 Paris

[Pradable]

I don't hate this, I have not been following fashion for a while, but I like what I see, I don't care about prices, couture has nothing to do with that, couture is about technique, details, aesthetics...

I have been having the feeling that fashion has become boring for many years already, soul-less and Demna's work is still 'interpelling' me, something that seduces, hooks, lures... within its ugliness, I feel quite captivated by it, and that make me enjoy it.

The music was tiring though.

 

[brandon J pierre]

I'm sorry guys this was Amazing , so much workmanship, love the colors, shapes and handwork. The best part is the return to a kind of grand couture but in contemporary way.

 

[perhydrol]

At the same time, Demna is sooo engaged in the couture venture that it's Peter Copping who describes the process behind particular pieces in the social media content.

 

[Deleted member 7575]

Maybe I'm spoiled by documentaries made about Chanel and Dior but the BTS images I've seen on instagram leave something to be desired.

 

[Kite]

You dont need to be a Couture Seamstress at Balenciaga, you need an engineering degree....

 

[LadyJunon]

Maybe I'm spoiled by documentaries made about Chanel and Dior but the BTS images I've seen on instagram leave something to be desired.

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God, even the atelier looks seedy...

 

[Deleted member 7575]

Just throwing this out there: the senior designer for couture was hired from Alexander Wang and that's kinda what the clothes look like it.

 

[Phuel]

It’s really endearing how makeshift, unpretentious, and non-fussy, straightforward the environment and workers are. (...Of course, it could very well be just a calculated strategy to enforce this auteur-sensibility and air since Demna has such a flair for role-playing…) Reminds me of the young designers I worked with: Working from a spare room, basement, living room of their apartment. But the completed offerings were really all kinds of wonderful. Who cares about the formality of dress-coded seamstresses and tailors in a spacious lab… Still LMAO at the pomp and pageantry of Dior and I, with Raf rambling on and on about Gerhard Richter as inspiration and how precise the space-age material had to be blah blah blah. And the result was something that resembled a hippie student's failed attempt at tie-dye slop. Formality means little (nothing) when the results are the Emperor’s New Clothes. Not everything works and there are absolutely whiffs of The Emperor’s New Clothes with Demna’s couture-- as with everything he touches. However, many of the offerings are fresh revision/reimagining/revamping of a fabled tradition that actually moves the process of couture along a sleek modernity-- with an engineering degree and all.

 

[Nimsay]

Some of the collection does reflect Cristobal esque pattern making. Thats about 15% of the collection though. Hardly enough to make a dent. The main look drivers are that Salvation Army in Moldova energy Demena loves so much.

 

[Deleted member 7575]

Engineering degree?

Eh, it all looks a bit crafty and homemade to me.

 

[jeremydante]

What I didn't understand about this collection was the inclusion of armor elements; that's not related to Balenciaga house code to any stretch of my memory or understanding. To promise redirection only to present the same tired looks; it's time for his removal. The storied house of Balenciaga deserves so much more than to have a tarnished lapse of time. Demna's time is up. We need to move on from this. All of us.

 

[GoldenPetals]

I think everyone just needs to stop posting in this thread.