Balmain Resort 2026 Collection
Speaking in his office, he said: 'A designer needs to change: to develop through reinvention. So it's not just only a house becoming bored of a designer and looking to change—the designer him or herself should become bored if they do not change how and what they do. You keep your DNA, but you make very different albums.'
At Balmain, Rousteing remains both signed to the label and committed to perpetual reinvention. The photography of these resort lookbooks reflected his intention to approach the collection from a fresh angle while deploying his deep expertise in the business to maximize its performance.
In womenswear, a focus on bouclé pieces in pastel checks (a little Clueless), black, and some racier color-combos kept aside in the showroom reflected the fact that around over 20% of Balmain's ready-to-wear pieces are in tweed. A seasonal floral reworked from a Pierre Balmain original was present in some of the multiple new fabrications of a growing core line of Balmain handbags; the Anthem (belt buckle), the Sync (chain), the Ébène (par-baked croissant), and the tightly-waisted Shuffle.
Knit bandage dresses and a split skirt floral aside, there was a notable step away from bodycon towards a focus on innovatively detailed oversized tailoring in wools including prince of wales check that often came cropped and placed in silhouette-skewing adjacency to matching microskirts and shorts. A coat so roomy you could put it on Airbnb came patterned with a felted Monet-esque print that reflected Pierre Balmain's artistic passions, Rousteing reported. His column-pediment wedge boots were delivered this season in a shearling fabrication as well as leathers and worn against lingerie dresses. Cocoon-like capes in peach or lemon cashmere were standout wardrobe pieces.
Menswear played a radical-conservative gambit of contrasting extreme tailoring—either angular and fitted, or oversized and softer—against denim, leather, or jacquard sportswear. Formal shoes were elevated from banaility by raised soles and extruded metal welting. You could see both bourgeois French paradigms and street silhouettes transposed to tailored fabrications. Lurking in the showroom were many non-shot but still highly photogenic pieces, including labyrinth pattern shirt-and-short sets, leather and wool stadium jacket blouson hybrids, and bouclé overshirts.
Said Rousteing: 'The real question is always what do you want to propose? And while my answer changes through the seasons, it also always relates to going back to the past and bringing it to the present in order to build the future. This is why I am always having this conversation with the original work of Pierre Balmain, and looking to express that dialogue in new ways.'
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Vogue
30 minutes ago
- Vogue
Required Reading: 7 Books and Authors That Inspired Elizabeth McGovern's New Play
'It just blew my mind, because it takes a person all the way from high school age to maturity. That really fascinates me as an actor, the idea that every person has an internal monologue. It's what got me into writing songs—you just put an internal monologue into musical form, and that becomes a song. When I was writing the play, I was thinking of it in a really musical way.' Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes 'There's something about the sense of humor in it that I find to be so modern, and just the idea that Cervantes could write something in 1605 and 1615 that skewers human nature in such a way—I find it to be still so relevant today. I find that life is made of tragedy and comedy, and if you have something that's only tragic or only comic, it's not telling the whole story.' Middlemarch by George Eliot 'I think the women in it are just so dimensional. My takeaway from it was how important it is to choose your life partner in terms of marriage. As a child of the 1950s and '60s, having grown up indoctrinated in the romance of falling in love, in the American dream that Hollywood manufactured—[I saw] a maturity to the story of these women and men, in the subtle ramifications of these marriages playing out and going wrong. I remember reading it in the early 1990s, when I had made this extreme choice to move away from the US and start my life in England. It was really in order to get married and have a family, and I remember feeling that [moving away] was a catastrophic and self-destructive thing to do. I was told constantly, Why are you destroying your career?, and when I read Middlemarch, I thought it was so wise about how important that choice is in the long term. In my life it's been an incredibly positive choice, even though at the time it seemed like the biggest mistake one could potentially imagine.' The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath $18 BOOKSHOP A native of small-town North Carolina during the Great Depression, Gardner objected to Hollywood's rags-to-riches characterization of her childhood, claiming that her family was better off than others in their Southern community. In her conversations with Evans, she recalls that Ernest Hemingway thought her father's name, Jonas Bailey Gardner, was 'like something out of a Steinbeck novel,' a comment that inspired McGovern to reread Steinbeck's 1939 magnum opus, The Grapes of Wrath. 'It is poetry, and also just incredible storytelling,' she says. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee McGovern, who starred as Martha in a 2023 production of Edward Albee's 1962 classic, recalls: 'It really did get into my bones and I loved it. There's a logic to it, but it isn't a linear logic; there's the sound of the words, and the [role of alcohol] in the play releases the freedom of it, and [the language] starts to have its own kind of sense.' The Belle of Amherst by William Luce The Belle of Amherst: A Play Based on the Life of Emily Dickinson $9 BOOKSHOP 'It was a one-woman play about the life of Emily Dickinson, with Julie Harris at the Longacre Theatre in Los Angeles, and I remember thinking, I want to do that. I was so entranced by [Harris] living on stage as this character; that really influenced me in terms of being an actor.' The poetry of Anne Sexton 'There's just something about her writing that is, at times, genius for me. I'm sure that a lot of it has to do, unfortunately, with her madness. But there is a brilliance in her use of imagery, and her absolutely honest and searing identity as a woman, putting herself in such a brave and uncompromising way into the poetry.'
Vogue
30 minutes ago
- Vogue
'Marc Jacobs: One Night Only!'—Revisiting the American Designer's Spring 2016 Show
She's with the band…. Photo: Alessandro Garofalo / Editor's Note: In honor of Vogue Runway's 10th anniversary, our writers are penning odes to the most memorable spring 2016 shows. Today: Marc Jacobs's Ziegfeld Theatre extravaganza. Anticipation, suspense, and (when he was late, as he often was back in the old days before he became the promptest designer in the business) impatience—Marc Jacobs could stir up feelings like no one else on the New York calendar. It never hurt that he held the week-closing spot, rendering everything else a mere prelude. Even still, this Marc Jacobs show stands apart. Instead of the Lexington Avenue Armory, his show venue going back to the 1990s, we were at the Ziegfeld, one of the last single-screen theaters standing in New York. Befitting the location, there was popcorn and fountain drinks, cigarette girls dispensing candy, show merch in the form of souvenir T-shirts, and even Playbills. Before the Ziegfeld movie palace, there was another Ziegfeld, a playhouse famous for its musicals, the most famous of all being Show Boat. It will surprise you not at all to learn that there was no little showboating this September evening in 2015.
CNN
30 minutes ago
- CNN
Noel Gallagher says brother Liam is ‘smashing it'
Noel Gallagher has dished out rare praise for his brother Liam, saying he is 'smashing it' on Oasis' reunion tour. The siblings have had a famously acrimonious relationship since their band dramatically split in 2009. But now, in an interview with UK radio station TalkSport on Tuesday, the Oasis songwriter and lead guitarist expressed his admiration for his younger brother. 'Liam's smashing it,' Gallagher said of his brother's performances as lead singer during the reunion tour so far. 'I'm proud of him.' The brothers have publicly traded barbs in the 16 years since Oasis' breakup, with their spat regularly making headlines around the world. In an interview with The Guardian in 2019, Noel accused his brother of making 'unsophisticated music' and said 'I can't stand his voice.' Those comments came two years after Liam said of him in the same newspaper: 'When I think about it, being in a band with him bores the death out of me.' So it was big news when the band announced last year that they were getting back together. They kicked off a 19-date tour of the UK and Ireland in Cardiff, Wales on July 4. They are due to play their first North American date in Toronto on Sunday, before heading to other cities in North and South America, Asia and Australia, with a finale in São Paulo on November 23. The Gallagher brothers were pictured hand in hand at the end of their opening night in the Welsh capital last month. Just how emotional was that moment?, the TalkSport interviewer asked Gallagher. 'We're not those kind of guys really,' said the singer-songwriter, who set up his own band, 'High Flying Birds,' following Oasis' split. Nevertheless, he went on to tell the hosts that he was pleased to be back on stage with his original band, which started in Manchester in 1991. They went on to become one of the biggest groups of the 1990s, hitting the number one spot in the UK with eight of their albums. 'It's great just to be back with Bonehead and Liam and you know, just be doing it again. I guess when it's all said and done we'll sit and reflect on it but it's great being back in the band with Liam — I forgot how funny he was,' he said. And that was not the only compliment he paid his little brother. 'I've been fronting a band for 16 years, I know how difficult that is,' he said. 'I couldn't do the stadium thing like he does it. It's not in my nature but I've got to say, man, I look around and I think good for you, mate. He's been amazing.'
