Gala dresses are all inclusive: shoes, gloves, leggings, and gowns in one piece. A modern take on waist-training, stretch materials are thermoformed to create an illusory cinch, eliminating the infrastructure of rigid corsetry. The fictional Balenciaga Football Club places the obsessive quality of team sports in another fanatical context.Įvening streetwear presents minimal, elegant shapes from a patchwork of athletic textures.
The techniques and materials used to make motocross, hockey, or scuba suits inform outfits for every day, softening the hard constructs of protective gear, while the softness of nightgown-like prints and fabrics are pumped up in powerful proportions, quilted, pleated, and layered with jacquard messages. Exaggerated pagoda shoulders and upright collars are created with technical processes that reinterpret past and present iconography. Silhouettes defy convention, accentuating a garment’s technical construction, the body of its wearer, and the space between the two. Sport, religion, obsession, and seduction are stripped of their functions, leaving only the sensation of a fashion object: extravagant, dramatic, erotic, or menacing. Bodybuilder “made-to-measure” fits create oversized, anabolic suits for anyone. Neo-gothic dressing looks back and forward at the possibilities of menswear, layering floor-length skirts and caped coats. Classical traditions, hardcore aesthetics, and fetishized details are combined and rearranged, mixing business with pleasure. The austerity of clerical garb and court robes are interpreted for casual wear. BALENCIAGA FALL WINTER 2020 COLLECTION – PARIS FASHION WEEKīalenciaga Winter 20 recontextualizes the structures inherently associated with desire, inverting the values of certain dress codes.
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