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THROWING ON A JACKET OR TWO to guard against the cold is nothing new—unless you’re Balenciaga’s Demna Gvasalia. For the Paris show, the designer layered coat upon coat on his models until they resembled padded nesting dolls. The Joey Tribbiani Friends memes quickly followed. But astute fashion observers noted that this multi-tiered approach to dressing was Gvasalia’s genius way of modernizing house founder Cristóbal Balenciaga’s love of voluminous proportions. Awe-inspiring or simply amusing? That’s up to the beholder. But it’s certainly one way to stay warm.