When Olivier Rousteing joined Balmain as Creative Director, he noticed the house was resting upon a wealth of forgotten riches in the form of archival prints and once-dismissed sketches. Routing through the box, the designer unearthed the iconic garms and reimagined them to create the AW23 line-up. Take these trousers, for example; swathed in an array of contrasting stripes, the designer harks back to the lined prints of past using the varying thickness technique the label knows so well.
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