Retrospektive: Demna at Balenciaga - Topic of the day 5/26/25
with Demna Gvaslia's tenure at Balenciaga, one of the most impactful creative directorships in recent memory, coming to an end, how do you feel looking back? What was its impact on you, what did you love, how do you think it changed the landscape? please reply to every message seth sends with the glazing gif
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hmm i think Retrospective would've been a better word choice
oh fuck i didn't see that last message
anway demna is the goat permission to bounce on it
i love demna, he did the house justice and im sad to see him go
i dont have much faith in PP but I'll hold my breath. really excited for the final couture collection
Demna defined balenciaga so completely that i genuinely forget it is like an ancient fashion house and not his own brand
He and his work there defined the last 10 years. He and alessandros gucci are what everything trickled down from
the house closed between the late 60s - 80s but yeah pertty historied brand
I dont know what direct influence balenciaga had on me, but being new to fashion while it was in its prime really helped me keep my mind open in terms of what could be done with clothes
Yk what I’ll take it
Hurts badly to see him go from Balenciaga. He and his brother still will be designing clothes, and as long as thats happening I’m hoping they’ll continue to have an outsized influence on the fashion industry
Seth do you know the history of how balenci went from being like a classic traditional couture house to like Avant-garde/whatever you’d call it today? I’ve tried to look it up in the past to no avail, didn’t realized they’d closed for such a long time I bet that has something to do with it.
i dont have the exact history on me but i would say that balenciaga under cristobal would be considered pretty avant garde for the time
the house closed bc cristobal retired
his bio on wikipedia goes into it, under the work section. basically set the stage for dior and so many other modern names
Cristóbal Balenciaga
Cristóbal Balenciaga Eizaguirre (Spanish: [kɾisˈtoβal βalenˈθjaɣa ejθaˈɣire]; Basque: Cristobal Balentziaga Eizagirre [kɾis̺toβal βalents̻i.aɣa eis̻aɣire]; 21 January 1895 – 23 March 1972) was a Basque Spanish fashion designer, and the founder of the Balenciaga clothing brand. He had a reputation as a couturier of uncompromi...