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Which Balenciaga by Demna Look Gets Your Vote?

By Laird Borrelli-Persson

With a curvy, hip-padded suit and an off-the-shoulder parka in Valentine red, Demna set fashion on a new course. His Balenciaga debut for fall 2016 was a master class in (ir)reverence, which concurrently paid tribute to the heritage of Cristóbal Balenciaga while loosening things up. Though the designer would come around to couture, he kept the street/salon dichotomy going over the course of his nearly 10-year tenure at the label, elevating denim to haute status, for example, and destroying the equivalency between hours of labor and value by proposing a 10-minutes-in-the-making dress.

Collected below are highlights from Demna’s career at Balenciaga. What were your favorites?

Which looks were your favorite? Cast your vote.
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    Balenciaga, fall 2016 ready-to-wear

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    Balenciaga, fall 2016 ready-to-wear

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    Balenciaga, pre-fall 2016

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    Balenciaga, spring 2017 menswear

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    Balenciaga, spring 2017 ready-to-wear

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    Balenciaga, spring 2017 ready-to-wear

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    Balenciaga, spring 2017 ready-to-wear

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    Balenciaga, resort 2017

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    Balenciaga, fall 2017 menswear

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    Balenciaga, fall 2017 ready-to-wear

    Alek Wek wears a Cristóbal Balenciaga design reinterpreted by Demna Gvasalia on the fall 2017 Balenciaga runway.

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    Balenciaga, pre-fall 2017

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    Balenciaga, spring 2018 menswear

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    Balenciaga, spring 2018 ready-to-wear

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    Balenciaga, spring 2018 ready-to-wear

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    Balenciaga, spring 2018 ready-to-wear

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    Balenciaga, fall 2018 ready-to-wear

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    Balenciaga, fall 2018 ready-to-wear

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    Balenciaga, pre-fall 2018

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    Balenciaga, spring 2019 ready-to-wear

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    Balenciaga, spring 2019 ready-to-wear

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    Balenciaga, resort 2019

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    Balenciaga, fall 2019 ready-to-wear

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    Balenciaga, fall 2019 ready-to-wear

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    Balenciaga, pre-fall 2019

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    Balenciaga, spring 2020 ready-to-wear

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    Balenciaga, spring 2020 ready-to-wear

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    Balenciaga resort 2020

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    Balenciaga, pre-fall 2020

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    Balenciaga, fall 2020 ready-to-wear

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    Balenciaga, spring 2021 ready-to-wear

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    Balenciaga, fall 2021 ready-to-wear

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    Balenciaga, pre-fall 2021

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    Balenciaga, resort 2022

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    Balenciaga, fall 2021 couture

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    Balenciaga, spring 2022 ready-to-wear

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    Balenciaga, pre-fall 2022

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    Balenciaga, fall 2022 ready-to-wear

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    Balenciaga, fall 2022 ready-to-wear

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    Balenciaga, resort 2023

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    Balenciaga, fall 2022 couture

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    Balenciaga, spring 2023 ready-to-wear

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    Balenciaga, fall 2023 ready-to-wear

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    Balenciaga, resort 2024

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    Balenciaga, fall 2023 couture

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    Balenciaga, spring 2024 ready-to-wear

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    Balenciaga, pre-fall 2024

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    Balenciaga, pre-fall 2024

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    Balenciaga, fall 2024 ready-to-wear

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    Balenciaga, fall 2024 ready-to-wear

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    Balenciaga, fall 2024 ready-to-wear

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    Balenciaga, resort 2025

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    Balenciaga, fall 2024 couture

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    Balenciaga, spring 2025 ready-to-wear

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    Balenciaga, spring 2025 ready-to-wear

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    Balengiaca-pre-fall 2025

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    Balenciaga, fall 2025 ready-to-wear

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    Balenciaga, resort 2026

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Christian Lacroix is Laird Borrelli-Persson’s fashion raison d’etre; the way he combined romance and historicism set her on the path she is following today. Borrelli-Persson studied literature at Boston College, spending her junior year abroad at Oxford, where she added some art history. After graduation she moved to New York to intern ... Read More
TopicsBalenciagaDemna Gvasalia