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Balenciaga returns to haute couture: what can we expect?

52 years after the closure of the original Balenciaga couture ateliers, Balenciaga announces the revival of haute couture. In other words: Demna Gvasalia will take responsibility for the new couture line. For the occasion, Balenciaga has a new couture workshop set up based on the old Balenciaga workshop on 10 Avenue Georges V in Paris. History...

28 Jan 2020

Fashion

18th century influence in PFW SS20 Shows

Dries Van Noten and Christian Lacroix channelled "Barry Lyndon", Andreas Kronthaler and Vivienne Westwood Mozart, and on Sunday US designer Thom Browne went potty for Madame de Pompidour. With designers' falling out of love with streetwear, Paris fashion week has gone nuts for the 18th century. Even streetwear's main man, the American Virgil...

30 Sep 2019

People

Demna Gvasalia to exit Vetements

Vetements co-founder and creative director Demna Gvasalia is stepping down from his position at the brand “to pursue new ventures.” The thirty eight-year-old founded the Zurich-based streetwear brand with his brother, Guram Gvasalia, in 2014. It is understood that Gvasalia will continue his work as the creative director of Balenciaga, whose...

16 Sep 2019

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Video: All you need to know about designer Demna Gvasalia

Here’s Everything You Need to Know About Demna Gvasalia Source: Highsnobiety Channel, YouTube.

9 Oct 2018

Fashion

Balenciaga looks to Angela Merkel for inspiration at Paris Fashion Week

Angela Merkel's very particular sense of style got some major catwalk cred Sunday on the day the German chancellor was guaranteed her fourth term in office. Fashion's hottest designer Demna Gvasalia sent out more than a dozen jackets and coats with Merkel hips in his Paris fashion week show for Balenciaga. The Georgian-born wunderkind, who grew...

5 Mar 2018

Fashion

Vetements joining Paris Men's Fashion Week

The latest update to all the Fashion Month schedule changes comes from Vetements. The luxury label designed by Demna Gvasalia, also artistic director of Balenciaga, has announced it will be joining the Paris Men's Fashion Week calendar next year. Gvasalia has become notorious for shaking up the Fashion Month calendar, having shown Vetements at...

11 Dec 2017

Fashion INTERACTIVE TIMELINE

Balenciaga’s Centenary: A Retrospective

In order to celebrate its 100th anniversary this year, fashion house Balenciaga has organised a retrospective entitled Balenciaga: l’oeuvre au noir, which will open at the Musée Bourdelle in Paris. The exhibition features Cristobal Balenciaga’s all-black, elegant and refined designs. To mark the occasion, FashionUnited has charted the history of...

7 Apr 2017

Fashion

What to look out for at Paris Men's Fashion Week

With what seems like half of Europe's male population in football shirts for the Euro 2016 championships, Paris designers will try to lift the tone Wednesday with the start of men's fashion week. Nearly 50 fashion houses will unveil their spring and summer collections for 2017 in the French capital, which is also hosting some of the...

22 Jun 2016

Fashion

Balenciaga to launch debut men's collection for Spring 2017

London - Balenciaga has set its sights on winning the hearts of men around the world. The French fashion house has revealed it will be launching its debut men's wear collection for Spring 2017, under the guidance of its new artistic director,Demna Gvasalia. Balenciaga moves into men's wear In order to present the new venture, which is certainly...

21 Apr 2016

Fashion

Paris fashion's rebel prince gives Balenciaga a mighty shake at PFW

Paris fashion's new rebel prince Demna Gvasalia took the venerable label Balenciaga by the lapels Sunday and gave it an almighty yank in his debut show for the brand. The street-style iconoclast -- a refugee who fled war-torn Georgia as a teenager -- frogmarched the fashion house so beloved of Jackie Kennedy and the crowned heads of Europe into...

7 Mar 2016

People

Balenciaga names new artistic director

Balenciaga has appointed Georgian designer Demna Gvasalia, the lead designer behind the Parisian collective Vetements, as its new artistic director to succeed Alexander Wang, who showcased his final collection for the fashion house on October 2 after a three-year tenure. The name Gvasalia may not be instantly recognisable, like Wang, but his...

7 Oct 2015