Balmain Resort 2024 Paris

[Phuel]

Definitely this. His collections always look expensive and oppulent. Unfortunate that the tiktok girlies associate this now with schiaparelli when rousteing has been doing it forever. nothing new at all at schiaparelli, and its neither wearable nor fashionable.

Absolutely. Most of the brand's designs are produced and offered in retail— can’t say that about the majority of these other editorial-bait/clickbait bluechip brands whose runway costumes never end up in retail.

And the unfortunate side effect of such a pop brand as Balmain and such a pop persona as Olivier’s, is that the lowest of common denominators will instantly gravitate towards it and him: He’s the Michael Jackson/Jeff Koons/Siegfried and Roy of fashion. You couldn’t feed me enough drugs to wear his designs, but also just like Jeremy Scott, Rick Owens— and Gianni Versace and Claude Montana before them, their brand of OTT tackiness, fire alarm level of gaudiness and loudness, is that aesthetic diversity that’s always needed to contrast the more sombre side of fashion. And it’s his Balmain, and Demna’s Balenciaga, that draw the lowest of common denominators (and I don’t mean that in a dismissive manner, as hard as that may be to believe) to spend on fashion. We’re all aware of, or familiar with that Balmain type: It’s the daughter of the corrupt military officer in Indonesia; any given housewife of a shady multimillionaire in any given part of the world; and my personal fool to suffer— the ghey exhibitionist that wears the gaudiest Balmain dinner jacket with a transparent tank top and dripping in Chrome Hearts, and always with a Birkin on his arm to every party and event. Olivier and his Balmain is the symbol for a very certain type, even as dated as that type may be, but all the same, a very real customer of fashion.