"
I wanted to escape creatively
", explains Olivier Rousteing the artistic director of Balmain, about his "parade" shot (and broadcast Tuesday morning) on the wing of a Boeing 777-300 and on the tarmac in front of an Airbus A350, evoking the conquest of space.
The designer who the French discovered intimately thanks to the documentary
Wonder Boy, born under X
, released in January 2020, has never hidden his anguish of loneliness.
These last months, marked by confinements and the inability to travel - he who traveled the planet all year round - forced him to seek inspiration elsewhere.
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He thus starts from a journey of Pierre Balmain in the company of Gertrude Stein in the United States in the 1950s but also cites the fate of Alyssa Caron, the youngest astronaut in the world (she is now celebrating her 20 years) who could be the first human being to set foot on Mars in 2023 ... While his peers have, for the most part, imagined collections for winter
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