Eighteen months ago, Demna Gvasalia announced that Balenciaga was going to parade on the couture calendar. Postponed many times because of the pandemic, the presentation was finally held on Wednesday morning, in Paris, in the salons of 10, avenue George-V. The last time such a parade had taken place there was in the spring of 1968. At the beginning of May, Cristobal Balenciaga, considering that haute couture had been sacrificed on the altar of ready-to-wear, left his salons without showing up. return. The legend says that the little hands of the workshop learned of the closing of the house that very morning over the radio. Although Balenciaga was relaunched in 1986 with ups (from 1997 to 2012 under the artistic direction of Nicolas Ghesquière) and downs, it has truly experienced a second golden age since the appointment of Demna Gvasalia in 2015,which transformed the house of good taste into a sociological and stylistic laboratory that left no one indifferent.
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