PARIS — So there we were, up early on a Sunday morning as the fashion season entered its final few days, caravaning out yet again to an echoing space in the banlieues of Paris, entering a room scented by the nausea-inducing aroma of freshly laid tar and cast in a blood-red glow, assaulted by strobe lights and pounding chords. Yeah, we know we’re all way out of our comfort zone these days — it’s been a theme of show after show for the last three weeks. Tell me something new, Mary Lou. Then Demna Gvasalia at Balenciaga did. Playing with many of the same subjects that have preoccupied other designers and turned into something of the themes of the season — the bourgeoisie, the power woman, glamour — he tweaked them and twisted them in a kind of grim and kind of gorgeous and entirely unrelenting stream of the not-so-mundane for both women and men.

Source: New York Times March 04, 2019 15:00 UTC