Alaïa Fall 2024, Moschino's New Creative Director, Kim Kardashian's Balenciaga + More

In todays video I review Alaïa's Fall Winter 2024 Runway Collection / Show (by Pieter Mulier). I also talk about Moschino's new creative director Adrian Appiolaza as well as Kim Kardashian's recent and expected return to being an ambassador for Balenciaga. Watching Pieter Mulier’s fall Alaia show made a stupendous emotional and intellectual impact. As his women walked across the mirrored floor of the Paris boutique, their spiraling, sculptural clothes sent a shiver of surprise around the room. You saw a progression of astonishingly innovative techniques, drapes, and silhouettes aligning. The female body and a sophisticated mentality were being connected in a way that felt like a class apart. It was a departure from anything that fashion has been showing in the past season, or indeed, from what Mulier has shown at the house before. Surrounded by the clamor of congratulations, Mulier explained the thread that united everything—both technically and conceptually. From the looped yarns of the deconstructed knitwear that opened the show, to the sculptural topiary-like forms of coats, to the asymmetrical dresses through the multi-layered trousers at the end, “everything is made from one material: merino wool. I’ve been working on it for a year, with only a couple of suppliers. It’s based on circles. It’s simple,” he claimed. “Very simple!” It seems odd to describe something as technically exceptional and mathematically mind-blowing as this collection as “simple,” but you understood