“The show must go on,” sang Freddie Mercury bombastically on the Balmain
sound system—and boy, did this show go on.
It was huge, immense, epic.
And that’s not a complaint: This felt Chanel-scale. Not only because it
was full of Pre-Fall looks (how great it is to see women and men
together on the runway), but because this menswear collection was the
most baroquely bananas blitzkrieg of densely different designs Olivier
Rousteing has thus far mustered.
Sources (Article & images) from Vogue.com
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Sources (Article & images) from Vogue.com
Edited Pics By Me
He said the show was “a hymn to music
meets fashion”; that, of course, he’d been mourning the passing of so
many musical legends in 2016; and that he’d been thinking a lot—but not
exclusively—about heavy metal.