EXCERPT: BALENCIAGA FALL 2024 - PARIS FASHION WEEK.

 

"...So, can it be said that Demna's Balenciaga is an indulgent protest song, within a subtle and in some cases, not so subtle overture.   For the extravagance of the Balenciaga engine, Kering obviously spares no expense to showcase Demna's ad hoc array of models, and his deconstructed stylizations.  By not abiding to any couture standard, rather offering that all his shows are a postmodern couture, in a odd show of respect to the late Cristóbal Balenciaga's standard.  But as we all know, Balenciaga is in name only.  That Demna's protest is more of a feigned expression than not.    

Demna's Fall 2024 showing in Paris, after his hyperreal Hollywood affair, falls within the same attributes of his pseudo obverse presentation.  The grandiose and the backlash are all intact, the collection starts of with a simulacrum of Cristóbal's couture imprint, descending closer to Demna's idealism that fashion is all about deconstruction.  In which a budding fashion graduate could find a correlation with, except for the fact Demna would use and utilize materials of quality to create, towards the end of the styles on show, what a 1st year designer would create with what they could afford.  And in its presentation, Demna has ended up mocking the independent fashion designer, who by all definition, as discussed, has Buckley's chance in this current industry..."

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Full review: chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2024/03/balenciaga-fall-2024-paris-fashion-week.html 

(A.Glass 2024)