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Couture’s Wild New Frontier | France News
Balenciaga’s Pierpaolo Piccioli stunned Paris with a couture debut that defied gravity—ballooning gowns, feathered hoods, and Gigi Hadid in a rooster-feather finale. As the house revived haute couture in 2020, this season pushed boundaries with themes of flesh, fantasy, and machinery, turning bodies into armor, abstract sculptures, or vanishing acts. Designers leaned into escapism amid a heatwave, blending fairy-tale runways with tech-driven questions about handmade vs. digital. Couture, ever the fashion lab, embraced the impossible: bodies without bodies, fantasy with profit, and tech that…
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