![]() Side stories include menswear codes colonized by the ostentatiously feminine (at least according to traditional categorizations) and a soundtrack that segued from “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” by the Eurythmics, to “Forever Young” and “Big in Japan” by Alphaville, to “It’s a Sin” by the Pet Shop Boys, and finally back to “Here Comes the Rain Again” by the Eurythmics. This recipe was adapted into variations that included black ruffled organza (plus cape) surrounding PVC-sheathed denim white ruffled organza (accented with black PVC thigh highs and opera gloves) surrounding a transparent PVC and a shoulder piece of layered black PVC petals above a black ruffled PVC skirt bisected by more transparent PVC. PVC OPERA GLOVES SUPPLIER FULLYet another dichotomy was encapsulated in a recurring silhouette that was a sort of born-to-be-bad baguette: fitted-but full and frilled-at the chest and hip the filling was a cinched and corseted section at the abdomen. “hard” dichotomy mined with abandon by Rousteing saw the codes of an uptown bourgeois Parisienne-with her fragranced wardrobe stuffed with hand-me-down couture bouclé and evening dresses in dramatically ruffled ’80s shapes-smashed against a punky, rock-y, leave-your-clothes-on-the-floor, highly anarchic (albeit highly solvent) sensibility articulated in those bikers as well as apparently picked-apart bouclé on denim outerwear, chainlink Alice bands, and long, embellished, frayed fishnet dresses in mohair (some of which snagged challengingly on the chain-link heels of Rousteing’s spiked boots). She cannot be categorized.”Īnother “good” vs. She’s defiant, but she is a paradox: She can be sweet and romantic too she can be an angel. Alongside many other decorative dichotomies, they represented one side of the theme Olivier Rousteing said he was exploring in his articulation of the Balmain woman today: “She’s got attitude she is a troublemaker, and she doesn’t care. ![]() These thousands of studs-on the striking opening oversize black bouclé blazer, on origami-structured pagoda-roof skirts, on open-shoulder bikers, on slides, on vests, on newsboy caps, on bags, on sharp-toed boots, and on transparent trenches and jackets-were there to make a point. ![]() Today, somewhere-most likely in Paris, given the hometown nature of Balmain-one very content supplier of pointed metal studs probably cannot quite believe their luck, for he or she will have already vastly overreached 2019’s sales target thanks to a Balmain collection that featured more spiked protuberances than a porcupine convention on a cactus farm encircled by a nail factory. ![]()
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