Demna’s autumn/winter 2023 haute couture collection for Balenciaga took dressmaking to its highest heights, says Anders Christian Madsen. Read on for five things to know about the show, staged at Cristóbal Balenciaga’s couture salons in Paris
From bank notes to invasive seaweed, mounds of earth to warm human flesh, virtually everything known to this planet has a distinctive smell. In a studio-slash-laboratory in Berlin, Norwegian fragrance scientist and artist Sissel Tolaas is cataloguing the lot of them – with over 10,000 smells and...
At the legendary New York Stock Exchange, the floor traders were switched to models and star-studded attendees as Demna Gvasalia presented his Resort 2023 collection for Balenciaga. Divided into three parts, the show also introduced the house's collaboration with Adidas. Below, all the looks from...
“It’s only innocent people who die in war," says Balenciaga creative director Demna Gvasalia. Today in Paris, he staged a show that not only sent a message to Ukraine but also told his own story of fleeing a war 30 years ago. It was an epic, terrifying, beautiful, and heartbreaking experience in a...
Balenciaga’s creative director Demna described his spring/summer 2024 collection as his most personal one yet, with family, friends and colleagues taking to the catwalk for the brand’s Paris Fashion Week show. Below, Vogue critic Anders Christian Madsen shares his five key takeaways.