Trooper boots and derbies are thick-soled, square-toed, and angular on all sides. Balenciaga Crocs 2.0, the second collaboration between the two brands, sees the classic clog made into pumps, boots, and platformed pool slides. Blade pumps and boots are defined by their super-sharp lines. Ultra flats and pumps take on the shape of toes in carbon effect flexible high-tech material. A hoodie’s strass front says Bébé (referencing the French way of pronouncing the Balenciaga double-B logo and also meaning babe) another hoodie, which reads No Comment, speaks for itself in its meaning yet another one depicts The Simpsons family dressed in recognizable Balenciaga pieces from past seasons.įetish stiletto sandals, pumps, and boots emphasize the shape of toes, imprinted in soft calfskin. Graphic prints reference themes of authenticity, such as a blank square that reads Your Ad Here over a hotline number. Tactical cargo pants transform into coveralls and cyber goth-style raver pants skirts in denim are tricked out with metal hoops and studs, optimizing zippers, side pockets, and straps. Another new signature, the tracksuit, is seen in multiple styles and functionalities. Trenches, coat dresses, and bombers are mostly reversible, giving the same garment two aesthetic functions.Įach a Balenciaga signature, the parka and the puffer have shortened sleeves and lengthened collars that stand up and away from the neck to underline the typical Balenciaga attitude built into the construction of those garments. Wrap coats recall a classic Balenciaga cocoon construction, but safety-pinned to one side and frayed at the hem. Dresses are patched, draped, and ultra-pleated, forming cocoon-like shapes in bright colors, florals, and graphic prints consisting of overviews of Balenciaga products mimicking icons on a computer desktop. Tailoring is deconstructed and engineered to sit off the body in various silhouettes. The line, which also includes limited edition bags hand-tagged with This Is Not a Gucci Bag, will be in stores starting in November of 2021. For example, an archival double-G diamond monogram design is transformed to consist of double-B logos in Gucci’s iconic tone-on-tone palette on a variety of leather goods and classic accessories. The Hacker Project presents pieces that merge Gucci and Balenciaga House codes and in so doing explores and questions the ideas of authenticity, counterfeiting, and appropriation within the fashion industry. The season introduces a range of new shapes and wearable concepts and functional accessories, as well as products from The Hacker Project, conceptual interpretations of Gucci’s recognizable signatures as Balenciaga products.
The models march down a minimalist runway to a sci-fi-inspired soundtrack composed by BFRND and an AI voiceover reciting the lyrics of “La Vie En Rose.” The video’s post-production processes include planar tracking, rotoscoping, machine learning, and 3D modeling, implemented in order to achieve a hyper-realistic effect. Some looks are styled to illustrate artificial manipulation using props, like chainmail headpieces in silver, gold, chrome, and rusted metal.
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In a video directed by Quentin Deronzier, Eliza appears as a series of digital clones, some of which are deepfakes, or models with Eliza’s photogrammetry-captured and CG-scanned face digitally grafted on.
To illustrate this concept, every look in the Spring 22 collection is seen on Eliza Douglas, an artist who has either opened or closed every show and appeared in most campaigns for the past several years. Technology creates alternate realities and identities, a world of digital clones. We no longer decipher between unedited and altered, genuine and counterfeit, tangible and conceptual, fact and fiction, fake and deepfake. We see our world through a filter-perfected, polished, conformed, photoshopped. Balenciaga’s Spring 22 presentation considers our shifting senses of reality through the lens of technology.
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