Reblog: March 09, 2022 BALANCIAGA. FALL RTW 2022 - PARIS FASHION WEEK

"I've been covering Balenciaga shows since 2015 just before, then creative director, Alexander Wang left the famed fashion house and the antifashion stalwart Demna Gvasalia of Vetements took over the helm. Gvasalia with his shrewd Eastern European ethos, has been able to re-craft the Balenciaga brand name with his innovative and captivating approach, which each season Gvasalia's Balenciaga, very much like his former brand Vetements, upped the ante with its contradistinction of aesthetics. And as this dreadful invasion of Ukraine, instigated by Russia, Gvasalia, being Georgian, has evoked memories of when Russian forces played both sides, mostly supporting Abkhazia, in a brutal ethnic cleanse of Georgians from the breakaway republic Abkhazia in 1993, to which a young Gvasalia had to flee with his mother.

So, for his Fall 2022 showing for Balenciga, he offered a respectful homage to the recent two million displaced Ukrainians who have been driven from their homes and towns due to Russian aggression. Gvasalia embracing, like with prior collections, the darkness that is of both humanity and nature, these natural systems are impartial to its brutality, as humanity on the other hand is conscious of its cruelty and its infliction it causes. It is the human being that suffers like no other animal.   And as Buddha taught from Four Noble Truths, “All I teach is suffering and the end of suffering,"..."