Balenciaga Resort 2023 (Balenciaga x Adidas) by Joshua Bright

[Zorka]

BALENCIAGA X ADIDAS
Photography: Joshua Bright
Hair: Holli Smith
Make-up: Lee Will
Models/Celebrities/Athlete: Bella Hadid, Isabelle Huppert, Han So Hee, Jermell Charlo, BCW & Khadim Sock



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[KoV]

Kudos to any brand that hasn't x'd with Adidas lately. Or hired Bella Hadid.

 

[aracic]

In 30 years when we look back at the history of fashion, will this be the pinnacle of today's fashion? Good god.

It's actually quite interesting to notice the trickle up effect that seems to be at the core of Demna's Balenciaga, to see what lengths people are willing to go to for the logo. It's giving hand me downs, clothes she inherited from a significantly older and larger brother (I would know, being raised in the Balkan area with older siblings I inherited my fair share of tracksuits), something that used to be embarrassing for people is now celebrated to the point where they are creating specific designs to make new items look old and used.
Oh and those socks raised to heavens beneath shorts and sweatpants... it's sad to see just how influential this sh*t is on general public. Just tonight I've seen a boy of high school age at the bus station that would fit in seamlessly into this set of images.

And lastly, Isabelle Huppert looks extremely stupid here.

 

[KoV]

^ agreed. I know we're all susceptible to trends to an extent, but it's increasingly obvious who has zero personal style or good taste and just consumes exactly they're told they should. It would be funny if it weren't impacting so many. You see well-to-do people in their 40s, 50s, and 60s who could be wearing anything - everything tailored or even couture if they wanted! And instead they're wearing a tracksuit or jersey large enough to fit someone twice their size, looking like an absolute slob. Statuesque people looking like they raided the closet of the My 600lb Life cast. and they think they look f*cking fantastic. The delusion.

 

[Deleted member 1957]

I kinda like this, reminds m eof what we used to watch onn some German channel called Transtel in the 80S

 

[THD96]

Love Isabelle, she's the only one selling this mess for me. No matter what they put her in she still excludes it with sophistication and charms. And that is something all these hypes and likes and noises people will never achieve.

 

[LadyJunon]

Everything I see Demna's work, I have the sudden urge to commit grand acts of violence...

 

[BlueRuin]

It’s giving old man from Squid Game

 

[Phuel]

In 30 years when we look back at the history of fashion, will this be the pinnacle of today's fashion? Good god.

It's actually quite interesting to notice the trickle up effect that seems to be at the core of Demna's Balenciaga, to see what lengths people are willing to go to for the logo. It's giving hand me downs, clothes she inherited from a significantly older and larger brother (I would know, being raised in the Balkan area with older siblings I inherited my fair share of tracksuits), something that used to be embarrassing for people is now celebrated to the point where they are creating specific designs to make new items look old and used.
Oh and those socks raised to heavens beneath shorts and sweatpants... it's sad to see just how influential this sh*t is on general public. Just tonight I've seen a boy of high school age at the bus station that would fit in seamlessly into this set of images.

And lastly, Isabelle Huppert looks extremely stupid here.

30 year later, this era will be seen as a joke that suckered an entire generation into high fashion’s version of social assistance/affirmative action/welfare. Everything that is untalented, lazy, unattractive, sloppy, tacky, basic-pedestrian and passably-mediocre is celebrated as high fashion and high design. And hopefully in 30 years, people will finally be embarrassed by it all.

Demna is a talented designer and capable of much better. His lazy trolling of high fashion with what is essentially how the poor/Skid Row dress isn’t clever/ironic/cheeky— it's deeply insulting, and so embarrassingly insensitive. The gang/prisoner look with the high socks is typical of wannabe-thugs, but this oversized/baggy sweats is how poor people, from those living deep in America's Appalachians to the impoverished villages in Russia, dress. Any other designer I would sum it up to typical fashion people cluelessness, but he must be aware of this since he’s from Georgia and has no doubt seen poverty first-hand with the war he’s professed too have lived through. Why he has chosen to mock fashion with how the poor around the world having no choice in the way they dress is beyond pathetic.

Rich dumb kidz desperate to flex will cop all this stupidity of course. Even more pathetic.

 

[Overindulgence]

Balenciaga is part of the array of brands who put out amazing runway shows but the accompanying campaigns are always flat, just look books (the campaigns from the first few Demna collection were nice).

The video for this was fun though with its The Office-inspired cinematography.

 

[entten]

Does anyone know who did creative direction and set design for the campaign?

 

[RaisinBoy]

Not for me
boring

 

[TianCouture]

after the scandal, these pictures are iconic to me, they really do say so much.

rly what do they say?

 

[Deleted member 141523]

This was printed in several february issues. They couldn't stop it after the huge scandal.

 

[KoV]

well in my mind they have become a storyline of satanist witches, Suspiria in the fashion world. They also make me think about how extraordinary simply existing is, the setting of the office which could be seen as mundane but it's amazing that it even exists and all the variables and effort and chance that went into such environment and one's self being in it. I also get a sense of the clothes and how they must feel and how you can be fashionable almost everywhere but we are still trapped in our bodies and the physical motions lol, I don't know but they say all that to me. There's also a spiritual aspect to them, you know they are going to hell, the way Huppert seems to be grabbing at the world, trying to control everything in it but she'll still end up in a box.

I guess the beauty of fashion imagery is that we’re all free to project what we will, because to me? With these images? With this cash-grab of a collection? It’s not that deep.