Trekking Through the Mud at Balenciaga With Ye, Offset, and Bella Hadid

And what he’s saying proper now could be this, kind of: it’s time to be actual. “I can’t be very optimistic proper now,” Demna stated backstage after the present. That sense was, uh, exhausting to overlook: fashions, their faces marked with bruise-y make-up, wore dirt-caked sweat units, waded by way of the mud with (faux) infants in carriers and go luggage in hand, their soaked ballet flats suggesting a way of solely semi-preparedness. (A number of clutched meme-ifed leather-based luggage of Lay’s Chips—an official collaboration with PepsiCo, Balenciaga CEO Cedric Charbit confirmed backstage.) 

Outsized suiting appeared in structural workwear materials paired with 3D printed clogs of cartoonish proportions, which pressured the fashions to not stroll however to trudge by way of the mud. “I feel this present really expresses that very a lot—the music, the set, it spoke in regards to the second through which we reside,” Demna stated.