Balmain Wants Everyone to Fall into Khaki

Vogue reported, of this collection:

This was the primary time in 13 years at Balmain that Olivier Rousteing devoted a full assortment to his childhood house of Bordeaux. It was additionally in some ways a love-note to Lydia Rousteing, his adoptive mom, who together with husband Bruno-Jean raised the younger designer there till he left the town to check trend in Paris (earlier than quickly leaving Paris to work for Roberto Cavalli). “My mother got here right here as we speak and she or he liked the seems to be,” he reported backstage pre-show. “And he or she jogged my memory of recollections from being a child. She was at all times sporting a trench—, actually French—and we’d go on a picnic and throw a gingham blanket on the grass.” If final month’s menswear present sprang from Rousteing’s African heritage, this womenswear sequel spoke to his id as a Bordelais.

That’s so fascinating to me. (There are extra fascinating particulars over at Vogue.) Whereas garments want, after all, to face on their very own, I do want we’d get extra background like this from individuals extra typically, as an alternative of them being like, “clearly I’m impressed by THE TRANSIENCE of EXISTENCE.”

NOW up to date with all of the precise images, I have no idea what occurred right here.

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