Balenciaga presents its resort 2021 collection imagined for the digital world. Creative Director of Balenciaga, Demna Gvasalia, explained the collection as illustrating the house's design archetypes. The renown oversized silhouettes clean up nicely over sharp knitwear and pops of color. The post-woke ensembles further solidify Demna's design thesis – one that approaches ironic sophistication without slipping into parody.
As an exercise in defining Balenciaga's codes, it's only fitting the collection appears through a digital interface. It could be easily argued Demna's Balenciaga seemed to predict if not define what cool personal style looks like online. The two-way effect of influence in social media on fashion cannot be overstated. So why not have the resort collection interface where it already lives?
Images courtesy of Balenciaga.
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