Balenciaga’s New Couture For Men Is Impeccable Prom Gear For Plutocrats
Jul 08, 2021
This country’s greatest living couturier, Vivienne Westwood, recently wrote as part of her online Climate Revolution diary (have a read, it’s fab), “Couture is the only sustainable economy: highly skilled, labour intensive and sold at true cost.” The dame’s not wrong. Since legendary British dressmaker Charles Worth founded the world’s first-ever couture house in Paris in 1858, the process of creating a garment from scratch to perfectly fit a client’s body – and, in turn, their exacting aesthetic specifications – has been the fashion industry’s untoppable zenith: the triple-glacéd cherry on an already fabulous cake. Read more at British GQ.
