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Photos: Alex Wang at Balenciaga
1/4Tour de Force
“Alex is involved in everything and aware of everything,” says his friend, stylist Vanessa Traina Snow. “Nothing gets past him.”
The designer, on the roof of the Hôtel de Crillon. Hair, Odile Gilbert. Grooming, Marie Duhart.
Fashion Editor: Camilla Nickerson.
2/4Star Struck
Carey Mulligan—in Balenciaga at the Cannes film festival in May—is just one of a stable of celebrities dressed by Wang.
3/4Sound and Vision
Canadian singer Claire Boucher, better known as Grimes, in a Balenciaga Scandinavian fox jacket, silk-velvet pants, and calfskin sandals.
4/4Stone-cold Cool
The embroidery on sheath dresses in Wang’s first collectsion for Balenciaga was made to look like marble.Hair, James Pecis; makeup, Mark Carrasquillo. Produced by North Six.