At the risk of alienating moviegoers, who often have little taste for fashion,
2001, a Space Odyssey
, Kubrick's masterpiece, is to science fiction what this Balenciaga show is to haute couture: dark, poetic, unusual, indecipherable, traditional and radical, both popular and experimental.
Except that the filmmaker anchors the first scene in the prehistory of Australopithecines to project himself into space millions of years later, when Demna, the designer, introduces his collection with integral combinations of the future and ends it with taffeta ball gowns linking him to Cristobal Balenciaga and the previous century.
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One could push the analogy between these two works and these two personalities for whom music is constitutive of the visual experience.
The soundtrack could have been called
Thus spoke Demna
, since the first models equipped with aluminum bags (in fact, connected speakers developed with Bang & Olufsen)…
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