Balenciaga

There were gasps as Demna Gvasalia unveiled his first couture collection for Balenciaga. The show was sleek, sober and very beautiful: black featured heavily, but amid the tailored suiting and swathed grey stoles were bunches of bright taffeta, embroidered floral skirts and show- off collars. Gvasalia also nodded to the casualisation of culture with haute couture jeans that were handmade in Japan on original

American looms.