Break My Soul Church Girlīeginning in September, Beyoncé, her stylist Marni Senofonte, my Balmain design team and I joined forces for five months, somehow managing-despite unforgiving fashion-week and concert schedules and some very difficult time-zone differences-to work through hundreds of WhatsApps, Zooms, and mails, in order to edit down last summer’s grouping of sketches into a reasonable number of true proposals, and then convert those into actual couture creations. And, once we hung up, we both took on a whole lot of extra work. ![]() Tina Knowles Lawson’s taste, talent and training have ensured that her daughter Beyoncé is another great designer-but, this moment seemed to be the right time for Beyoncé to commit to working on the creation of a true Parisian couture offering, by assuming the role of design partner on our RENAISSANCE Couture Collection. Maybe it was because of the great importance that her first style icon, Beyoncé’s beloved uncle Jonny, had on the album, or maybe it was because I’ve seen, first-hand, just how much Ms. Instead, I was very much hoping that she might be up for something completely new: an actual, true collaboration between two creators who are both obsessed with pushing their art to the next level. This time, I wasn’t asking her to simply be my muse. Obviously, having already collaborated with Beyoncé on so many memorable occasions, I already knew about her color, cut, fabric and accessory preferences, allowing me to seamlessly incorporate those, without thinking, into those initial rough sketches.īut when I made the decision to call and share those very early-stage concepts with her, well… what I was hoping to talk about wasn’t just another round of looks for the red carpet or concert stage. By the time that we reached the rentrée-those end-of-summer days when French vacationers make their way back into the real world-I had been stirred to sketch out fifty new silhouettes riffing on the rhythm, spirit and voices of RENAISSANCE. When Beyoncé first released those extraordinary sixteen songs, she mentioned that she hoped that they would inspire all of us “to release the wiggle.”Īctually, she managed to push me to release a whole lot more than that. I had absolutely no reason to be dedicating so much of my time to those drawings, outside of the simple pure pleasure I got from creating something completely new, as I channelled her glorious, joy-filled art into my own. ![]() There was no plan, project, or expectation. I’m That Girl Cozyĭay after day, I kept dreaming up and sketching out new concepts inspired by Beyoncé’s RENAISSANCE, the album that had been constantly blaring in my home, office, atelier and vacation rental-and in an endless loop in my head-ever since it dropped in July 2022. And I really should have been making more of an effort to disconnect, relax and enjoy my summer vacation. ![]() ![]() I could have been using my time to finalize all the details for the September runway. We have already seen two of the look which the singer wore The BRITs and the 2023 Grammys, so see the rest of the collection below, along with Olivier Rousteing’s inspiration behind the collection. Beyoncé partnered with Balmain creative director Olivier Rousteing to co-design a one-of-a-kind haute couture collection for the French house inspired by each track from the album.
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