2024 - Beyoncé unveils "Renaissance couture", the haute couture collection created with Olivier Rousteing for Balmain

The collection consists of 16 garments to echo the 16 tracks of the album “Renaissance” from which it is inspired.

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Beyoncé for the new Renaissance Couture project produced with Olivier Rousteing and Balmain haute couture (Louie Banks / Vogue France) — Beyoncé for the new Renaissance Couture project created with Olivier Rousteing and Balmain haute couture (Louie Banks / French Vogue)

Renaissance is no longer just the title of an album, it has also become the name of a haute couture collection developed by the American singer Beyoncé in partnership with Olivier Rousteing, the artistic director of Balmain. The two artists worked for “six months to co-create a very modern couture collection”, do we specify on the brand’s website .

“Some of the exceptional outfits” from the collection sewing revival will be revealed exclusively on March 29, 2023 by Beyoncé in the April issue of Vogue Franke which the artist makes the cover. On her Instagram account where she announced the news, the American singer thanked Olivier Rousteing and Balmain while stressing how much the creative process had been “liberator” for her. “Thank you for trusting our vision and sharing it with the world”she wrote again, addressing the teams of French Vogue.

16 creations for the 16 titles of “Renaissance”

In addition to having had access to the clothes, the magazine collected the confidences of Queen B and the artistic director of Balmain on this unprecedented collaboration. . “Olivier is a dream partner and a constantly innovating and evolving designer. Everything he has done as a black fashion designer to break down and open doors has been inspiring. From our very first meeting and with the creations he has made over the years for my shows and appearances, I knew one day I would be working with him on a collection,” said the American star , reports Vogue France on the Instagram social network. Balmain had previously partnered with Beyoncé, among others, in 2018 for her performance at the Coachella festival. Two separate collections had been created for her stage outfits and those of her dancers and musicians.

Referring to their recent artistic partnership, Olivier Rousteing stressed how important it was to truly collaborate with the singer. “I wanted us to create this collection really together (…) For the first few months, she gave me carte blanche, in total freedom of expression, because she wanted to know what I understood of her. My part of imagination, confided for his part the artistic director of Balmain to Voguand France.

“I had 40 potential looks (…), he continues . We chose 20. And then 16 in the end, corresponding to the 16 titles of the album. It’s really his songs that created this seam.” Olivier Rousteing says he passed the album Renaissance looping when it exits. It was while drawing on the songs that the idea for the collection came to him. On the Balmain site, we remind you that the artistic director is mainly associated with ” her great friend and longtime muse Beyoncé“.