Paris fashion week AW20: Balmain channels 80s elegance
Paris fashion week fell back in love latex and the horsey set Friday, with Balmain rolling the clock back to the 1980s in a glitzy show that could have been called “Pretty Woman goes to the Polo Club”. With Celine’s Hedi Slimane already committed to reviving the bourgeois pearls and twin-set look, Balmain’s artistic director Olivier Rousteing said he wanted to democratise the clothes of the ruling classes. “Growing up in Bordeaux, perhaps the most…