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It’s been over a month since Balenciaga was first accused of sexualizing children in two controversial ad campaigns. The first, as part of a holiday gifting series, showed children holding handbags that looked like teddy bears dressed in bondage gear. The second was a spring 2023 advertisement, released five days later, showing a handbag perched […]

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Courting controversy is arguably what Balenciaga does best. In recent years, creative director Demna has built a reputation for stealing the world’s attention time after time with weird, unconventional and downright startling marketing. And so far, it’s proven to be a pretty successful publicity strategy. But as viral backlash from the Balenciaga holiday campaign intensifies, […]

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Yeezy Gap and Balenciaga put on a show On February 23 in Miami, Kanye West’s Donda 2 release party not only hyped up music lovers, but captured the attention of fashion aficionados. Ye and his longtime friend Demna Gvasalia presented Yeezy Gap Engineered by Balenciaga. The collection welds notable sign posts from the two creative […]

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Later this week, sustainable knitwear designer Olivia Rubens, who hails from Ottawa, will compete in the International Talent Support competition taking place virtually this Friday at 10am EST. The 11 finalists in the Fashion category of the prestigious competition (who follow in the footsteps of greats like Richard Quinn, Mark Fast and Demna Gvasalia) are […]

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It’s been a weird old year, with just about everything we took for granted as being normal being thrown out the window on account of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s no secret that the fashion industry felt the impacts of the pandemic in a big way: from retail store closures to fashion week cancellations and a […]

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Demna Gvasalia has never been one to play by fashion’s rules – and that’s exactly what makes him one of the industry’s most exciting designers. At a time when fashion is undergoing so much change and there are so many conversations around scheduling, seasons and the future of fashion as a whole, the Balenciaga designer […]

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Demna Gvsalia will revive the couture line from July.

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The respected designer announced the news overnight

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Since its inception in 2014, French fashion label Vetements has been routinely drawing ire for what appear to be an elaborate set of jokes. First they received global attention for purveying a t-shirt with the logo of logistics company DHL for $330. Following collections replicated stereotypes of goths and Heaven’s Gate cult members. The brand’s […]

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Fashion rarely springs from a blank canvas. Creatives regularly draw inspiration from past trends and their everyday lives. Demna Gvasalia, Balenciaga’s artistic director since 2015 and founder of Vetements, is no stranger to the concept, as he is (in)famous for ironically borrowing from pop culture and everyday ‘normal’ clothes before spicing them up with a boosted […]

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Last week after months of speculation, The New York Times broke the story of Virgil Abloh’s appointment as artistic director of menswear at Louis Vuitton. Born in Chicago, Abloh is Ghanian-American and a longtime collaborator of Kanye West. He joins Olivier Rousteing at Balmain as one of two black designers leading a French heritage house, […]

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Full disclosure: I have children. So I know the craziness of trying to dress them nice, but I also know what it’s like to give up on dressing them nice because they either a) trash the stuff  b) lose it c) hate what I choose. So when SSENSE announced it would be selling Balenciaga Kids, I had […]

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