A fashion week unlike the previous ones. While international news is upset by the war in Ukraine, designers are trying as best they can to give meaning to their fashion shows. Demna, the Georgian designer of Balenciaga and himself a refugee from a war with Russia, for example paid a vibrant tribute to Ukraine on Sunday in a parade at Le Bourget in Seine-Saint-Denis north of Paris.
Blue and yellow T-shirts, in the colors of the Ukrainian flag, were displayed on each seat with a parade note signed by Demna, explaining why he kept the event going in these times when “fashion loses its right to exist” and “Fashion Week seems absurd“.”Long live Ukraine, for beauty, strength, truth, freedom“: in Ukrainian, Demna recited a poem dating from 1917 at the start and end of the show, as part of the women’s ready-to-wear week in Paris.
This committed parade attracted many personalities, muses of the brand or simple admirers. We were able to see Kim Kardashian, who is becoming increasingly rare in France since his violent attack, François-Henri Pinault, accompanied by his grown-up daughters Paloma Pinault and Mathilde Pinault, as well as his sublime wife, actress Salma Hayek, Isabelle Huppert, Tina Kunakey and Adèle Exarchopoulos, rapper Polo G, Louise Bourgoin, Yseult, Roddy Ricch, ASAP Ferg, MLMA or even Lil Baby and Fredrik Robertsson.
The jumpsuit worn by Kim Kardashian caused a sensation!