Excerpt: Balenciaga. Spring 2025 - Paris Fashion Week

 

"...Be it that romanticized lower Manhattan, 1980s and 1990s Thrift store styles (not many of these store's exist anymore), which are evident throughout his Spring 2025 collection, seen as the thrown together mix and match, ad hoc formal/streetwear arrays, which have become more apparent with Demna's latest Balenciaga showings, claiming that he, "likes the mess".

So, the core of the Spring 2025 collection very much remains within Demna's earlier manifestations of his Vetements roots, and when he debuted for Balenciaga in 2015, revealing his offbeat Eastern European 90s rave styles, that are becoming a lot more deconstructed, which is clearly his stalwart template for Balenciaga.  What I find appealing with his newer looks, is his attempt to enclose the Thrift, and those exaggerated rave styles between that open hedonism of the 70s and 80s, seen with the lingerie, stylized gowns and cocktail dresses.

Does the fusion work?  I would say, yes it does.  And more importantly, there are ideas on display that can be drawn from Demna's latest offering.  Which could aesthetically inspire, and subsequently cost less than a pair of 'destroyed' Balenciaga jeans selling for $2,500."

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Full review: chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2024/10/balenciaga-spring-2025-paris-fashion.html 

(A.Glass 2024)