Moodboard/Excerpt: Balenciaga's MEN'S 'TRACK GRAFFITI' SNEAKER priced at $1350 USD. Excerpt. BALENCIAGA PRE-FALL 2023.

 

"...Demna's alignment gave him the opportunity to destroy aspects of clothing as an artistic prose, more so his Balenciaga sneakers, with the destroyed look from wear and tear to an extreme destruction of a shoe, to which they have been priced at $2000(USD).  Demna's artistic backlash of fashion, is not in reflection of the ludicrousness of that once staving artist who after many years, begins selling his or her art at five digit figures.  Even though the 1980's and early 1990's NYC art scene holds a variety of examples of that rarity from rags to riches.  Demna's simulacrum of 90's artistic romanticism, is just that, a romantic inclination of an era that came and went.  If Demna's homage to the 1980's and 1990's is portrayed as an overpriced destroyed sneaker, it would be Kering, the holding company for Balenciaga that appears so far to be writing blank cheques for Demna's artfulness of the Balenciaga brand name.  So the questions have to be asked.  Is Demna's clothing for Balenciaga considered art work?  And why would I collect it?..."

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Full review: chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2023/05/balenciaga-pre-fall-2023.html 

(A.Glass 2023)