Balenciaga spring summer 2023

Kanye West opens Balenciaga SS23

Demna presents the Balenciaga spring summer 2023 collection as part of Paris Fashion week. Guests included: previous Rain cover star, , Alton Mason, Anna Wintour, Charli XCX, Doja Cat, Khloé Kardashian, Offset, Salma Hayek, Tommy Cash, Kylie Jenner and more. See all the VIPs and catwalk images below, courtesy of Balenciaga.

Kylie Jenner and Khloé Kardashian arrive to Balenciaga SS23 Photo: Tiziano D.

Collection notes

I hate boxes and I hate labels and I hate being labeled and placed in a box. Society, the internet, and the world, in general, loves doing that, because it feels safe this way.

One needs to have courage and persistence to truly assume their identity and who they really are. Every day becomes a battlefield to defend this unique identity. And the more you try to be yourself the more you get punched in your face. But how great it is to be different from one another.

The challenge is to get up and keep walking towards your true self after you have been beaten up and knocked down.

Fashion loves boxes and labels more than anything. Luxury, not luxury, street, couture, good, bad, buzz, viral, all the same, who cares. Putting luxury fashion into the box of polished, exclusive, and visually expensive is limited and pretty old school. Individualism in fashion is downgraded to pseudo trends dictated by a post in stories of some celebrity of the moment.

I’ve decided to no longer explain my collections and verbalize my designs, but to express a state of mind. Fashion is a visual art and all we need is for it to be seen through someone’s eyes. Fashion in its best-case scenario should not need a story to be sold to someone. You either like it or not.

The set of this show is a metaphor for digging for truth and being down to earth. Let us let everyone be anyone and make love not war.

Demna

VIPs

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Adele Exarchopoulos and Sammi Cheng

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Adele Exarchopoulos

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Alexa Demie

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Alexa Demie and Edward Enninful

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Alton Mason

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Anastasia Karanikolaou

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Anna Wintour and Daniel Kaluuya

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Araya Alberta Hargate

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Aya Nakamura and Adele Exarchopoulos

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Aya Nakamura

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Charli XCX

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Chiara Ferragni

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Christine Quinn

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Danielle Slavik

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Devonte Hynes

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Doja Cat

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Emily Ratajkowski

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Fai Khadra

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Fai Khadra and Devonte Hynes

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Henri Pinault and Edward Enninful

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Han So Hee and Naomi Campbell

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Han So Hee

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Jamie Xie

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Jermell Charlo

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Juergen Teller and Doville Dryzite

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Khloé Kardashian

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Lauren Wasser

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Mona Tougaard

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Nadya Karpova

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Noami Campbell and Offset

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Offset

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Pernille Tesbaek

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Reign Judge

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Renata Litvinova

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Rickey Thompson

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Salma Hayek

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Sammi Cheng

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Selah Marley

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Sevdaliza

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Sinead Burke

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Tommy Cash

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Vittoria Ceretti

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Yseult

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Zinnia Kumar

Runway

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