BALANCIAGA. FALL RTW 2022 - PARIS FASHION WEEK

After my Pre-Fall 2023 review of Demna Gvasalia's Balenciaga, I felt that a conclusion is probably in line as a fashion reviewer of the many of Gvasalia's Balenciaga's shows, it is the relentless expectations of the Balenciaga brand name via its holding company Kering, to have a perpetual presence for the iconic fashion house.  And in light of the comeback of this so called anti-establishment fashion designer after his fall from grace.  There is a growing repetitiveness of the Balenciaga showpiece, that by its definition is becoming more and more diluted with Gvasalia's creative drive.  So, this review of Gvasalia's Resort 2024 showing for Balenciaga, which is clearly a reworking of Couture that is deliberately out of season. And I mean this literally, as the filmed collection shows Gvasalia's displaced and misplaced looking models move in and out of the wind and rain, in front of the late Cristóbal Balenciaga couture maison in Paris.

Toying with the spirits of the past is an unwise motavation.     

I will choose, maybe randomly, snippets from all my reviews of Balenciaga over the many years.  See if it matches up for this Resort collection. 

BALANCIAGA. FALL RTW 2022 - PARIS FASHION WEEK

"...Balaenciaga's Fall 2022 collection, as you would expect, have the same elements that Gvasalia's previous pre fall styles represented in December 2021.  Although, there is the return to the apocalyptic showing in similarity to his Fall 2020 showing in March of the same year, which at the cusp of the global pandemic.  He has returned to prophetic and horror oriented concepts, that seem to be now embedded into Gvasalia's Balenciaga. Despite the seasonal collections thereafter the Fall 2020 show, where he attempted to lighten the load and renew an aura positivity to his styles.   It is, as mentioned, before we can all journey into a brighter day, we have to deal with this very humanistic affliction of repeating history, be it war and genocide, mixed with the fact that we're all having an impact on the climate.  Because at the end of that day, the human race is very capable of annihilating itself.  

And nature will carry on."