Compared with the traditional haute couture, the 50th season of Balenciaga Haute couture series broke the social stereotype of haute couture, Demna added a large proportion of everyday items with street, fashion and tannin elements. These pieces, which hardly appear in other brands' haute couture collections, define this haute couture collection as modern, young, and free, and he also believes that the 21st century haute couture should come into life as a daily, wearable attitude, is everyday, wearable, and more free.
Emerging Chinese designer Sensen Lii founded the fashion brand WINDOWSEN in Antwerp in 2019.
Through bold visual language and genderless design, integrating traditional haute couture women's and men's sports styles, it challenges the social boundaries of fashion, envisages an inclusive post-human world, a dream where norms are eliminated and traditions are distorted.
Sensen, who also graduated from the Royal Academy of Arts in Antwerp with Demna, was selected as one of the five emerging designers in the world who need to be known, and also released the brand's haute couture collection in autumn/Winter 21.
Sensen, who has always had a unique pioneering understanding of haute couture, believes that Balenciaga's high definition is different from other brands in its attitude. Compared with the past, Balenciaga's high definition series is more like expressing the current modern society's attitude towards high definition. Create a pioneering, conceptual sense, de-classization, diversified aesthetics and integrated fashion design style.
Eponine Huang, who has multiple identities in the field of art, is a photographer and an actor, and also revealed to friends in the conversation at the salon that he was writing songs recently.
She is constantly trying new fields. When it comes to the cross-field or style creation of art creators, she believes that instead of hesitancy in her own creative style comfort zone, she should boldly try and make mistakes.
Eponine Huang's works have always had a strong personal style, the pursuit of romance and freedom, seems to be the core expression of her works in all artistic fields.
Chu Tong described Balenciaga's haute couture collection as "angular romance", and the dresses in the collection have been restructured and innovated by Demna, with bright colors and stiff silhouetted shapes, and Swarovski crystal worsted mesh dresses with futuristic streamlined sunglasses. Both brand elegant gene, but also have their own style of the 21st century high definition.
Valentina Li, the most creative beauty artist among the new generation of Chinese makeup artists, is the only Asian makeup artist selected in the New Wave 50 list of global Fashion creatives released by the British Fashion Council in 2020.
Her makeup creation is not limited to the face, and even extends to body painting. Breaking through the conventional, good at the clever use of different materials in makeup accessories, creating a new colorful, pioneering, very formal world.
Valentina was impressed by the combination of classic and modern elements in this haute couture collection. For example, Demna combined the satin capes worn by women in the 50s and 60s with parka, reinterpreting the fusion of the old and the new, so that the definition of haute is not limited. Valentina's artistic creation is just like this, breaking through norms and releasing the expressive force contained in beauty.
We invited more than 30 industry artists to experience Balenciaga's return to Haute Couture after half a century, and to have an artistic collision in this exhibition hall with the brand imprint of the century-old fashion house.
In addition, we also invited artist Yu Ji, musician Chacha, YVMIN designer Xiao Yu and Min, photographer Ma Hailun and Bilal, fashion guru Ling Liccheng and Congya, these artists from different fields to explore art in the salon. The pavilion seems to have been given more levels of meaning.
In Shanghai, China, the first stop of the exclusive global viewing of Balenciaga's 50th season Haute couture collection, the venue is inspired by the historic Balenciaga Haute Couture Salon at 10 Rue Georges V in Paris.
The huge soft creamy-white curtain, the delicate soft solid color carpet, the warm backlit ceiling, the infinite reflection of the visual space, and the furniture from the 1930s Balenciaga's first haute couture fashion show complement each other. Guests were reminded of the moment Cristobal Balenciaga locked the door and left the Salon in 1968.
Balenciaga used a "museum-like" presentation form to present the 30 sets of high-end designs that came to Shanghai, China. Nineteen of the works are displayed in the exhibition space as invisible handcrafted models that visually levitate around a huge circular art gallery, while another 11 works are displayed in the Haute couture salon space adjacent to the Huangpu River. The salon also includes a space for measuring custom sizes and a separate private fitting room, bringing the authentic haute couture experience to China.
Balenciaga has specially designed an exclusive piece for this exclusive Chinese viewing event, an off-white fur embroidered organza silk coat.
Balenciaga's haute couture relaunch after a half-century has raised expectations for how the fashion designer Demna Gvasalia, who specializes in anti-traditional fashion, street style and deconstructive design, will bring haute couture to Balenciaga in the 21st century.
We got the answer.Demna Gvasalia re-codes and pays homage to Cristobal Balenciaga's couture works with the aesthetic and popular language of the new era of the 21st century, while adding his own design style and his view of haute couture in the 21st century to this couture collection, inheriting the past, present and future.
The tribute to brand founder Cristobal Balenciaga is an important linguistic part of the 50th season of the Haute Couture collection.
The iconic hourglass silhouette, cocoon silhouette, and large V-neck opening shadows of the period appear in the works of this high-end series. Demna recreates classic silhouetted, iconic designs from the Balenciaga archive in a very personal, modern and even futuristic way.
The futuristic element plays a key role in this series. The details of the shape add a sense of the future, such as smooth lines with a strange futuristic style of butterfly unibody sunglasses, the wide and flat Balenciaga signature round hat, with light refraction on the surface of the resin material.
For the viewer to build a kind of future and past in the present moment blend of wonderful beauty, so that people marvel at the collision of times.
With a strong sense of gender fluidity, this couture collection fully explains Demna's definition of couture. Demna believes that haute couture in 2021 should be modern and open-ended. In the 21st century, haute couture should also be more diverse, open and inclusive.