Dad sneakers are a fucking scourge and no one is doing more to try and convince you they’re chic and not hideous than current Balenciaga Creative Director Demna Gvasalia, patient zero for this cynical trend and a man who honestly just seems like he’s making fun of anyone thirsty enough to drop nine hundred bucks on…
It’s okay if you don’t want to share this information publicly; perhaps an anonymous Google Doc will suffice. Those of you who paid $850 for this Balenciaga platform Croc-adjacent shoe, please reveal yourselves?
If you’ve run out of oily rags and shrimp husks, why not tie up your hair with a piece of the past? Scrunchies are back, and they want to get on your head and nest.
For all the time the fashion business spends chasing the next big thing, for the towering names of the industry, the past is tremendously valuable. It’s also an incredible amount of work to maintain and very expensive.
On Tuesday, the New York Post reported that Chris Brown actually doesn’t have to attend 52 weeks worth of batterer intervention programming as a condition of the restraining order a judge ruled on last week to ensure he stays the hell away from his ex-girlfriend, Karrueche Tran.
Apropos of absolutely nothing, I’ve been having an extremely frustrating denim experience. I recently ordered a new pair of jeans in the same size and cut that I’ve purchased three previous times. When they arrived, the jeans didn’t fit. I returned them and reordered another pair. Then I ordered a second pair and…
On Monday, casting director James Scully posted some scathing commentary on Instagram addressing the alleged mistreatment of models by casting agents Maida Gregori Boina and Rami Fernandes, who were working for Balenciaga. Scully’s Instagram called them “serial abusers” for allegedly making models wait in a darkened…
Today at Men’s Fashion Week in Paris, Balenciaga showed a melange of gear emblazoned with Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign logo except with his name replaced with the Balenciaga logo. Because nothing says Bernie Sanders like $2,700 sport coats and $445 short pants!
Oh my god, the Balenciaga show on Sunday was so perfect, a delightful soup of 1980s whimsy in an uncharacteristically dull Paris lineup. One item in particular really got me going: this hooded latex coat that looks like a very large condom!
Balenciaga debuted the brand’s first-ever men’s runway show this week, designed by much-hyped new creative director Demna Gvasalia. The results were great, assuming there’s a large swath of male luxury consumers interested in looking like two young children stacked on top of each other inside a trench coat.
Today WWD unleashed a crucial feature that asks the fundamental question, “Is Fashion Heading for a Burnout?” The endless schedule of fashion weeks—and the increasing demand on designers to churn out eight seasons a year to keep up with consumer demand—has been a font for soul-searching for several years now,…
Nicholas Ghesquiére said he was inspired by technology for his latest collection at Louis Vuitton, but the clothes themselves took us not to the future but to the early days of the internet, when AOL was still sending out trash-filler CD-Roms and Hot Topic hawked metal lunchbox purses with Emily the Strange sneering…
Some lucky customers trying to buy Balenciaga bags on the brand’s website Thursday managed to get them for a fraction of the price they’re usually listed at, causing panicked excitement among fashionistas across the country, Page Six reports.
The focal point for Alexander Wang's second show as Balenciaga's creative director were bug-eyed, Matrix-style glasses—which was opportune, because a FROWing baby Nori (with chaperones Kim and Kanye) was the ultimate shineblocka.
It's a bit of a shock to see übersupermodel Gisele Bündchen without her long, luscious locks in the new Balenciaga ad — shot by Steven Klein — but she looks tough and fierce.
Nicolas Ghesquière is leaving Balenciaga after 15 years as the house's creative director. The brief announcement in Women's Wear Daily says the designer and the company made a "joint decision to end their working relationship" effective the end of this month. No word on what prompted Ghesquière's departure, or whether…
Kim Kardashian flew to Australia not only to "escape" media scrutiny following her announcement that she was divorcing her husband of 1728 hours, Kris Humphries: she also went there to launch her Kardashian Kollection handbag line. Which apparently includes the Kardashians' versions of some of the world's most…
Balenciaga creative director Nicholas Ghesquière says that when Gisele Bündchen (pictured here in Balenciaga's seasonal campaign), Amber Valletta, and Carolyn Murphy refused to wear his high heels, he decided to design some flat shoes. We're picturing some kind of supermodel superdelegate triad descending on the…
[Los Angeles, April 13. Image via Pacific Coast News Online.]
