The Balenciaga Resort 2025 show took place at Shanghai’s Museum of Art Pudong, and while this is an undoubtedly cool and futuristic backdrop, it’s not making me want to suck a rum drink through a straw and fiddle with a paper umbrella. Now, I’ll grant you, that does not seem to be the brief for MOST resort collections, for some reason. Let’s see what Harper’s Bazaar had to say.
Demna loves a reality show, and it wasn’t hard to imagine the cast members of Netflix’s Bling Empire wearing some of the quirky rich-lady clothes on the runway, whether at home in L.A. or outside on the streets of China’s largest city. You saw the twerked polish in the hourglass skirts and billowy pussy-bow blouses worn with slinky open-toe heels and white tube socks or ripped-fabric pantaboots. The cropped and bulky trenches and cocooning faux-fur coats gave off an “I’m expensive” vibe, but also an aura of zero fucks given. As Demna has always been wont to give us, there were tinges of tackiness made sharp by perfect tailoring and distinct lines.
There are persistent rumors that John Galliano might be courted to run Balenciaga, as reported by Amy Odell. Demna hasn’t been offloaded yet, but that would be a very curious switch from one controversial person to another. These disjointed thoughts are brought to you by a Sunday watching Serendipity and realizing with equal disjointed randomness that John Corbett could be played, in the movie of his life, by Travis Kelce.
