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Models present creations for Balmain during the Women’s Fall-Winter 2020-2021 Models present creations for Balmain at the end of the Women’s Fall-Winter 2020-2021 Ready-to-Wear collection fashion show in . Ready-to-Wear collection fashion show in Paris.

aris fashion week fell back in twists them to... open doors and open Gwendoline Christie sitting next to her Plove latex and the horsey set minds,” Rousteing said. on the front row, it set tongues wag- Friday, with Balmain rolling the “I realise that my search for ging wondering whether Brienne of clock back to 1980s in a glitzy show answers about my past has helped me Tarth had lopped off the American that could have been called “Pretty make it clear how happy I am to be designer’s head backstage. Woman goes to the Polo Club”. With living in this present, in this Paris of Vogue called it “fashion’s cheeki- Celine’s Hedi Slimane already commit- new possibilities, of fewer boundaries est It bag”, and was particularly ted to reviving the bourgeois pearls and more inclusion.” Family also ran impressed when Lamy produced her and twin-set look, Balmain’s artistic director Olivier Rousteing said he wanted to democratize the clothes of the ruling classes. “Growing up in Bordeaux, perhaps the most bourgeois city in all of , I learned from an early age that certain classes, clubs and cliques were closed off to someone who looked like me,” said Rousteing, the Models present creations for Balmain at the end of the Women’s Fall-Winter 2020-2021 Ready-to- first black designer to head a major Wear collection fashion show in Paris. Paris fashion house. “I spent countless hours dreaming and scheming about how I could cross over, open doors and be accepted,” he added. Balmain’s plan was to storm the bourgeois bas- tions in thigh-high latex boots, with a battalion of crack models led by bat- tle-hardened older supermodels Helena Christensen and Esther Canadas. “Out of my way buster, or I will batter you with my Balmain shoulder pad,” quipped the New York Times’ critic Vanessa Friedman of the collec- tion in a tweet from her front row seat. Rousteing sent his diverse runway army out in glammed up versions of equestrian and upper-class classics, from blazers to a stunning pencil argyle dress and his take on gaucho through Virgil Abloh’s Off-White iPhone from a flap in the back of her designer for ponchos. Country set silk scarf prints show late Thursday, with the black beloved’s skull. Even for Owens, one Balmain Olivier Rousteing ran through the collection, with their American designer sending out super- of fashion’s true radicals, this was acknowledges the audience at motifs picked up in puff ball woollens models Bella and Gigi Hadid as well as quite something. Meanwhile, the the end of the Women’s Fall- enlivened with swathes of sequins. their mother Yolanda. French designer Agnes b-who has a Winter 2020-2021 Ready-to- As with Kardashians, it is hard to huge following in Asia-cancelled her Wear collection fashion show Severed head handbag know with the Hadids who is the more Paris fashion week show that was due in Paris. — AFP photos The 33-year-old creator, who famous, with 56-year-old Yolanda a to the held on Monday because of described himself as an orphan who bestselling author as well as a former the coronavirus and “the current did not know his origins, was in star of the reality television show, global sanitary context”. It is the reflective mood, with a film about his “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills”. But third Paris show to be cancelled search for his roots, “Wonder Boy”, in the biggest surprise came at the Rick because of the virus. — AFP the running for best documentary at Owens show, where his flamboyant the French Oscars, the Cesars, late French wife Michele Lamy sported a A presents a creation for Balmain during the Women’s Fall-Winter 2020-2021 Ready-to-Wear Friday. “This collection adapts those bag modeled from Owens’ own head. collection fashion show in Paris. symbols of upper-class exclusion and With “Game of Thrones” actress

Models present creations for Balmain during the Women’s Fall-Winter 2020-2021 Ready-to-Wear collection fashion show in Paris.