Who owns Balenciaga today? Then known as Pinault-Printemps-Redoute,French multinational Kering acquired a 91% stake in Balenciaga in 2001for an undisclosed sum. From that point onward, it joined other brands in the Kering stable such as Yves Saint Laurent, Boucheron, and Alexander McQueen. In 2...
It was a moment very clearly engineered to go viral, but in that respect, it was a massive success: The brand gained hundreds of thousands of Instagram followers in the days after the show, and a post depicting the moment garnered over 2 million likes in just 48 hours, according to Nylo...
From the looks of itFrançois-Henri Pinault, CEO ofKering, the luxury group who owns Balenciaga, and designer Demna Gvasalia for Balenciaga, laughed and enjoyed very much 10 min of this Balenciaga Simpson “episode”… “We needed something fun to happen,”– said Demna Gvasalia, designer f...
in 1986. Under designer Michel Goma, who focused on ready-to-wear, the brand experienced a resurgence, with his first collection introduced in 1987. The brand returned to high fashion with the arrival of designer Josephus Thimister in 1992. It has since been led by a series of creative ...
Kidman who is a brand ambassador for Balenciaga was joined by other high-profile celebrities likeAnna Wintour,Kyle MacLachlan, andBill Skarsgardat the event. In the star-filled room, it's clear that the evening was packed with nuanced interactions and personal dynamics. ...
designer explained. “The idea was to bring this kind of elegance, the gesture of wearing those pieces, but take it into a kind of cool and make it more modern. You can also wear it in a normal way, but it is constructed so that one part is larger and then you can also pin it ...
IT IS THE RARE DESIGNER WHO CAN MOCK, shock, and unsettle the fashion industry while becoming one of its breakout heroes, but over the past decade Demna Gvasalia—the iconoclastic designer of Vetements and, since 2015, the creative director of Balenciaga—has turned insurrectionary energy into ...
IT IS THE RARE DESIGNER WHO CAN MOCK, shock, and unsettle the fashion industry while becoming one of its breakout heroes, but over the past decade Demna Gvasalia—the iconoclastic designer of Vetements and, since 2015, the creative director of Balenciaga—has turned insurrectionary energy into ...