Balmain ’s T-shirts used to go for sums like $1,600, but the fashion house has decided to bring the prices down with its collection for the next spring in an attempt to respond to present-day economic rigors, a press release reports. The new line is expected to go easier on the wallets with a new set of prices – from €120 for T-shirts, from €250 for jeans, €350 for jackets, and €650 for suits. Named just Pierre Balmain , the collection will include clothes for men and women.Another piece of...Read Full Story
Natasha Poly-Balmain Fall 2011,Paris FW Balmain creative director Christophe Decarnin was missing in action for the label’s fall 2011 presentation today, but the show went on with Decarnin’s rock and roll aesthetic fully on display. Models strutted down the runway in sparkly sequined tops and pants, white leather and plunging necklines baring a lot of skin. With all the glitter and shine, it seemed that Balmain was looking towards the glam rock phase of music history for its inspiration...Read Full Story
Natasha Poly-Balmain Fall 2011,Paris FW Balmain creative director Christophe Decarnin was missing in action for the label’s fall 2011 presentation today, but the show went on with Decarnin’s rock and roll aesthetic fully on display. Models strutted down the runway in sparkly sequined tops and pants, white leather and plunging necklines baring a lot of skin. With all the glitter and shine, it seemed that Balmain was looking towards the glam rock phase of music history for its inspiration...Read Full Story
Christophe Decarnin, chief designer for BALMAIN You ever hear of this brand that charges $1,600 for jeans, $11,000 for blazers, and upwards of $21,000 for trashy-looking gowns??? Only BALMAIN can do this, with very few luxury fashion houses following closely behind. Guess what? Ever since John Galliano (designer) got fired from Christian [DIOR] recently for making an anti-Semitic remarks, star designers like Christophe Decarnin (BALMAIN) started getting dropped from fashion houses like...Read Full Story
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Online discount shopping destination The Outnet has an impressive selection of on-sale styles from Balmain including embellished dresses, bold-shoulder jackets, leather skinny pants (with zippers!) and more. The fashion press reported today that Christophe Decarnin is parting ways with the fashion house...Read Full Story
Filling the shoes of a previously successful designer is never an easy task. For Balmain, having Christophe Decarnin at the reins vastly improved and invigorated the French label who saw a transition at the hands of Olivier Rousteing. Entering his sophomore showing for Balmain, military garb inspired by Russian Imperial Army uniforms yielded some smartly [...]Click here to view full gallery at Hypebeast.com
Before there was Balmain, the runway standout of the decade, all leather, spikes and sharp shoulders, there was Pierre Balmain, a French couturier famous in the ’40s, whose fashion equals were Dior and Balenciaga. Known for opulence in ball gowns and the like, his big focus was on cut and movement. When Christophe Decarnin revived [...]
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When designer Christophe Decarnin and Balmain _ the old fashion house he helped revive _ called it quits earlier in the year, some onlookers viewed it as a sure sign of the end of the '80s glitz and sensual bling-bling designs associated with Decarnin's Balmain.
After creating, with stylist Emmanuelle Alt, the phenomenon of Balmainia, former creative director Christophe Decarnin abruptly departed from the house he’d brought back to relevance, citing only medical concerns. As the press buzzed about the escalating pressures of the industry (in the wake not only of Decarnin’s departure but of Galliano’s anti-Semitic outburst and [...]
They do say no price should ever be put on beauty or on what makes it possible. With the new Christophe Decarnin at Balmain collection of jeans, looking good and keeping up with ...
Balmain Homme SS09 — 4 comments. stylepov wrote 2 months ago: (L-R) The white tee and slip-ons are part of the look, black lace up dhoti pants will be about 1,350 … more
To the beat of a Billy Idol soundtrack, designer Christophe Decarnin described his Balmain show as 'more hard rock and punk this season'. Think leopard-print chain mail, snake-patterned denim