Balmain F/W 2024.25 Paris

[LadyJunon]

 

[LadyJunon]

Those shoes look so awful and clownish.

 

[dontbeadrag]

I like how this is very obvious. This screams Middle East as the clientele, this is the type of the rich, tacky Middle Eastern woman you'd see going inside Harrods or Lafayette. The colours, the cut, the make up, the bling, all of it. It is very Balmain, but as if he rose from the dead and the oil wives approached him for the looks.

 

[MagFan]

From Schiaparelli to Guo Pei he referenced everyone

 

[gallianostan]

the texan at schiap should sue

 

[AnaD]

Tacky. Looks very cheap.

 

[vogue28]

VOGUE.COM

 

[vogue28]

VOGUE.COM

 

[Lola701]

Those ugly shoes. Some designers should understand that no woman wants her feet to look bigger…

As @dontbeadrag said, this collection seems very directed to a particular market!
This season more than ever before, it’s not just about an aesthetic but talking to the existing spending clientele.

What saves Olivier, always, is the cut and craftsmanship.

The best thing about this collection is the cast. Seeing the original Prada woman, Charlotte Pellé Flossaut is such a nice surprise! All those veterans models! I love it.

 

[Urban Stylin]

I actually love it, always been a sucker for that lady like silhouettes and aesthetic. The shoes are way too chunky as always.

 

[YohjiAddict]

Not good in spite of the venue, cast and makeup, which I actually liked. The floral/fruit prints he chose are the main culprit for the astounding tackiness of these clothes, they look like fabrics that even Richard Quinn deemed matronly. The use of Schiaparelli-esque embroideries is the cherry on top of this trash heap.

Some of the leather pieces and vests could be repurposed into something passable but the rest is tacky and tired, just like his muse Kim K.

 

[plentyofhorns]

Good cast! I love when designers use actual women as models instead of 15 year olds

 

[WAVES]

indeed his saviour and almost redeeming factors are how well everything is executed… but then, regardless of how directional in terms of clientele it is or not, it’s very dowdy.

 

[TianCouture]

The Grapes of Wrath. Seriously? Grapes? Come on.

 

[LANZO_358]

C’est elle! C’est elle… Olivier took his references from everyone this season it would seem.

 

[ReneSanchez]

Some flower looks here remind me of the different stages of infected zombies in The Last of Us.

 

[yslforever]

Wow, that's the best cast in recent years ...

 

[thiago:)]

Yeah, I feel like the ladies from Dubai (and Beyoncé lol) will love this. The prints are sort of hideous, but I appreciate the overall opulence!

 

[Kanzai]

His couture for Jean Paul Gaultier was probably his best works for years. This one is such a hot mess

 

[Cocteau Stone]

You can clearly see the clientele for this. It's so obvious and to be so frank is rather admirable. You can smell and almost see the exchange of money happening here, with the waft of fresh oil, jet fuel and and the over zealous application of perfume.

Still don't enjoy his work though. Clearly not for me, but I find it so overworked it hurts my eyes a little bit. It leans into costume caricature, but that is also the clientele for this so really Olivier is doing a stellar job. Gotta keep those lips plumped.