{"id":131685,"date":"2020-09-24T21:30:29","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T19:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/?p=131685"},"modified":"2024-02-23T10:19:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T08:19:41","slug":"balenciaga-and-haute-couture-a-new-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/balenciaga-and-haute-couture-a-new-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"Balenciaga and Haute Couture: a new beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89246 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/1-Avvenice-Balenciaga-New-Collection-Dress.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1314\" height=\"851\" data-id=\"89246\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Haute Couture is the founding principle of Balenciaga, so it is my creative and visionary duty to bring Balenciaga back to Haute Couture. It is above trends. It is an expression of beauty at the highest aesthetic and qualitative levels. And it connects the vision. of the Maison at its origins &#8220;(Demna Gvasalia)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the latest interview of <b>Women&#8217;s Wear Daily<\/b>, <b>Demna Gvasalia<\/b>, creative director of\u00a0<b>Balenciaga<\/b>, unveiled that <a href=\"https:\/\/wwd.com\/fashion-news\/designer-luxury\/demna-gvasalia-balenciaga-interview-couture-men-1234584700\/\"><strong>news are no over<\/strong><\/a>. The first big turning point had already been announced in <b>January<\/b>: the fashion brand of the designer Crist\u00f3bal Balenciaga, after 52 years of Ready to Wear, returns to <b>Haute Couture<\/b>. This will take place once a year and will be for both <b>women<\/b> and <b>men<\/b>, with the aim of bringing back the ancient values \u200b\u200bof craftsmanship, Heritage and preciousness of the single dress.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cHaute Couture is something special. We need to learn again to be patient about special things. By exhibiting once a year, there is enough time to do something really special, to develop something that is not easy to copy, so it can be true couture &#8220;(Demna Gvasalia)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the maison, ongoing projects reflect the new awareness: from the use of green materials, to moving away from the forced seasonality of the &#8220;old&#8221; pre Covid fashion. Now, in fact, the main collections will be presented only in June and December.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-89244\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/1579531104508-bella-balenciaga.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" data-id=\"89244\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Haute Couture is the founding principle of Balenciaga, so it is my creative and visionary duty to bring Balenciaga back to Haute Couture. It is above trends. It is an expression of beauty at the highest aesthetic and qualitative levels. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":182378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,69448],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204340,"href":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131685\/revisions\/204340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131685"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=131685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}