“The time has come for fashion to have a point of view.” That was the straightforward message Demna delivered backstage today at Balenciaga. The show we had just witnessed played out in a darkened room, on a polished dining table lined on both sides with editors in chief, celebrities from Nicole Kidman to Katy Perry, and Balenciaga and Kering management. His grandmother’s table is where Demna discovered he was interested in clothes as a young boy in Georgia. “My earliest memories of fashion start with me drawing looks on cardboard, cutting them out, and making ‘fashion shows,’” he wrote in a note that was distributed to the press. Demna may have been trying to reconnect with his inner child, but there was nothing guileless about this collection. |
