Gvasalia, Demna

December 4, 2023

Balenciaga Basks in the Warm Glow of Celebrity Forgiveness

After months of reputational repair, the French house brought its latest show to Los Angeles. Almost exactly a year after setting off a flurry of public […]
October 2, 2023

Balenciaga, Loewe, Hermès and Comme des Garçons Assess the Options

It’s time we expect more from our clothes. Assessing the options at Balenciaga, Loewe, Hermès and Comme des Garçons. Backstage after his autobiographical and quasi-retrospective Balenciaga […]
June 1, 2023

The Balenciaga Comeback Is Happening

At the Cannes Film Festival, the Met Gala and with a new collection. Is the world ready? Demna, the mononymic designer of Balenciaga, that former harbinger […]
February 8, 2023

The Future of Balenciaga Is on the Line

And everything else you need to know to hold forth on fashion month at a cocktail party. Get ready. Your feeds are about to be crammed […]
July 25, 2022

Chaos and Creation: Inside the Making of Yeezy Gap

In 2020, two fashion brands announced an unusual alliance. Now that goods are finally hitting stores, is Yeezy Gap a corporate-creative cautionary tale, or a new […]
March 7, 2022

Balenciaga Goes Where Fashion Hasn’t Dared Go Before

In the show of the season, the brand takes on the war in Ukraine. Valentino embraces love. And Givenchy buckles down. PARIS — In a cold, […]
February 24, 2022

Yeezy Gap/Balenciaga is Here. Is It Worth It?

What exactly are we buying, when we buy fashion? A disruptive collaboration provides one answer. There are others. There was disruption, from the start. A major […]
December 21, 2021

The Year of Balenciaga

Demna Gvasalia and I meet in the metaverse, in a glassed-in conference room in an unnamed city. Though the buildings suggest Singapore by way of the […]
December 13, 2017

The Year in Stuff

Advertisement It was a year that felt like a decade: 2017 saw the arrival of a new president (and an at-the-ready resistance movement), the unsealing of […]
October 4, 2017

Critical Shopper: Balenciaga Makes You Look Twice

Critical Shopper By KATHERINE BERNARD This past weekend, Demna Gvasalia, the creative director of Balenciaga, unveiled a new logo for the French fashion house at its […]