The meaning of Balenciaga is a methodology. The process of creation as ideology, as identity, an expression of humanity and human invention. The début collection by Pierpaolo Piccioli as Creative Director of Balenciaga commemorates this essential component of the Maison, and of the work of Cristòbal Balenciaga, bringing it into the present. Not homage, but recalibration.

Balenciaga’s creative practice placed humanity at the core of his approach. Aesthetic austerity, even severity, belies a physical lightness – a weightlessness, clothes conceived for and around a dynamic body. A crucial exchange exists between body and cloth, a shifting interrelationship. In precise gesture to his reasoning, here garments explore the space between fabric and form, the air between as a third dimension, a vital component of their construction.

The meaning of Balenciaga is a methodology. The process of creation as ideology, as identity, an expression of humanity and human invention. The début collection by Pierpaolo Piccioli as Creative Director of Balenciaga commemorates this essential component of the Maison, and of the work of Cristòbal Balenciaga, bringing it into the present. Not homage, but recalibration.

Balenciaga’s creative practice placed humanity at the core of his approach. Aesthetic austerity, even severity, belies a physical lightness – a weightlessness, clothes conceived for and around a dynamic body. A crucial exchange exists between body and cloth, a shifting interrelationship. In precise gesture to his reasoning, here garments explore the space between fabric and form, the air between as a third dimension, a vital component of their construction.