New Balenciaga Ambassador Michelle Yeoh Leads Spring 2024 Campaign by Tyler Mitchell
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Adidas Pauses Balenciaga Partnership "Until Further Notice" In Pre-order Customer Messages
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Adidas Is ‘Re-Evaluating’ its partnership with Balenciaga, “pausing” all co-created product launches “until further notice.”
The news came quietly, with customers supplying Sneaker Freaker with copies of emails they’ve received from adidas regarding the pre-order of Balenciaga/adidas Stan Smith trainers.
In a bit of irony, Balenciaga tells customers a different story, that the “trainers will be delayed in shipment” and that “We will notify you again once the item is shipped.”
In case you thought this might be a coordinated message between the two brands to the same customers, it obviously was not.
Read MoreBalenciaga Recklessly Threw Children and Prominent Women to the Curb
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Balenciaga’s Betrayal Is 3-Fold
1) Few of us believe the campaign ever came to life without the approval of Demna or someone very high up at Balenciaga, Demna undercuts his own fashion industry credibility.
2) Balenciaga threw Kim Kardashian, Nicole Kidman, Bella Hadid and more to the curb. The brand didn’t give a twit how Demna’s artistry might impact their careers and reputations.
3) America has angry vigilantes toting AR-15s and other high-capacity guns killing people at random — and many victims are members of the LGBTQ community, called groomers.
Read MoreNicole Kidman, Bella Hadid Call for Balenciaga Garde Robe Order in the Boardroom
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Balenciaga shifts into luxury-brand, boss-lady mode, with actor Nicole Kidman calling a board meeting to order. An uber-platinum blonde Bella Hadid, Han So-hee, Isabelle Huppert, and Khadim Sock take their seats at the table.
Balenciaga’s new Garde-Robe collection was first presented at the brand’s resort 2023 show. The May 2022 event took place at the New York Stock Exchange in Wall Street.
Isabelle Huppert sits with pumps crossed on her cluttered with boss-lady brilliance credenza. Her oversized Hourglass bag holds a masterplan for becoming the next billionaire genius — and it doesn’t involve buying Twitter at a bargain basement price from Elon Musk.
Read MoreBalenciaga Deletes All References to Kanye West and Ye With Few Words but Bold Actions
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After removing all visible references to Ye, known to the world as Kanye West, from their own websites on Thursday — along with any products sold on third-party websites carrying an association beween Balenciaga and the rapper/creative marketer of all things Ye or Yeezy — Balenciaga has issued a statement Friday saying that the luxury label no longer has "any relationship nor any plans for future projects related to this artist.”
On Oct. 17, the Kering-owned luxury label fashion giant announced that saying Kanye’s runway imagers was removed from Balenciaga’s Spring 2023 Paris fashion show and also from Vogue Runway, as well as the Balenciaga website.
Balenciaga’s severing of any association with Kanye West is due to his recent anti-Semitic statements and threatening behavior, as expressed on the podcast Drink Champs. Kanye has threatened to go death con 3 on Jews in recent days.
Additionally, West’s right-wing, conspiracy-theory assertion that George Floyd died of a drug overdose — and not because of the nine-minute, knee on his neck, no-mercy murder that the entire world watched live — was stated as a reason why Balenciaga has severed all connections to Kanye West, legally known as Ye.
Read MoreBalenciaga Winter 2022 Campaign Lensed by Daniel Roché with Kim Kardashian
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Luxury house Balenciaga shares its Winter 2022 campaign with Kim Kardashian making a major impression as the lady in a blue dress, joined by Euphoria actor Alexa Demie, rapper Big Matthew and model Khadim Sock for Demna’s winter collection.
Odesa, the beautiful city in southern Ukraine, was Demna’s displaced family’s first place of refuge. Yesterday, Ukraine sought UNESCO cultural protection for Odessa. “Russian forces have advanced to within several dozen kilometres (miles) of the city, which blossomed after empress Catherine the Great decreed in the late 18th century that it would be Russia's modern gateway to the Black Sea.” See also the NYT August article Odesa Is Defiant. It’s Also Putin’s Ultimate Target.
Read MoreBalenciaga Pre-Fall 2022 Campaign by Nadia Lee Cohen | 'Fourth Choice' Leathers
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Balenciaga shared really exciting news on the sustainability front, including the brand’s shift to using ‘fourth choice’ leathers. These hides have been rejected for some imperfection, and the term ‘fourth choice’ is theirs.
Read More“Everything we buy is made from leftover skins that would otherwise be burned. If you can make it into a skirt or a jacket, why not? You can find a lot of this, all over the place. We’ve been doing this for a while.”
Kim Kardashian Fronts Balenciaga Spring 2022 Campaign As Official 'Friend' of the Brand
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Kim Kardashian Fronts Balenciaga Spring 2022 Campaign As Official 'Friend' of the Brand AOC Fashion
Kim Kardashian is officially joined to Balenciaga, taking a center stage position in the brand’s second phase of their Spring 2022 campaign. Don’t go looking for it on Balenciaga’s Instagram, which is wiped clean except for one image of Kim Kardashian.
Kardashian previously told The New York Times, "I had a Balmain era, I had a Givenchy era, and this is my Balenciaga era... When I wear clothes designed by Demna, I feel cool. I feel no matter what I wear, it's going to be all right, because he designed it and he's the coolest."
The SKIMS mogul made a grand entrance at last year’s Met Gala ‘disguised’ in Balenciaga. In her new role for the brand, Kardashian joins Justin Bieber as a ‘friend ‘— or ambassador — for the brand. Photographer Stef Mitchell [IG] captures the mother of four in her Calabasas home.
Mitchell also captured the extended campaign cast, which includes Isabelle Huppert in her Paris home, Marie-Agnès Diene in her atelier, and Tommy Blue in Paris.
