From our upcoming Fall issue: DemnaGvasalia tells OfficialALT about his first BALENCIAGA haute-couture collection (the first from the fabled Paris fashion house in 50 years) and The_Real_IMAN models some of our favorite pieces.
to talk to him about the moment, and the brilliant Iman to model some of our favorite pieces from the collection.LEON TALLEY: I’m very fine. And I want to say, first of all, it is an honor to speak to you.
GVASALIA: Yeah. I cast real people. They have such personalities and some of them are quite the characters. They choose what they want to wear. And it’s also very Balenciaga. He used to have what people would call “ugly models.”GVASALIA: They were super elegant, and he made them elegant with his clothes. People transformed when they put those dresses on. It makes sense to look for unconventional beauty at Balenciaga.
LEON TALLEY: Oh, thank you. That was a Norma Kamali puffer coat. She would be thrilled. That’s my favorite coat. I wear it every day when it’s cold, to church, everywhere.GVASALIA: Oh wow, I love that. Cristóbal Balenciaga was about comfort a lot, and when I saw this image, I was like, “It’s so couture, but I bet it’s super cozy.”
LEON TALLEY: It was meant to be. I looked at the collection and it was building up, it kept going higher and higher until it got to that long pink dress on this fabulous Black model. This evening gown was so seriously cut, so Balenciaga, and then made so modern by her hairdo. GVASALIA: Balenciaga is one of these houses where you have big shoes to fill in terms of couture. I was very scared at the beginning. That’s why I didn’t touch it for five years. But two years ago, I felt like I was getting too comfortable in my ready-to-wear journey and needed to get out of my comfort zone. I wanted to be creative. The moment I’m in my comfort zone I panic. I need to move on, to do other things. So I was like, “What do I do next?” Couture was the answer.
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