File photo : French fashion designer Olivier Rousteing//AFP
Paris, France – The hectic fashion season reaches its last stop in Paris on Monday, with the biggest intrigue being whether beloved brand Balmain can recover from the theft of 50 outfits last week.
“Our driver called us to say that he had been attacked by a group of people. More than 50 items were stolen,” Balmain’s creative director Olivier Rousteing said on Instagram on September 16.
“My team and I have worked very hard. We will work even harder, day and night,” he added, though even by the breakneck pace of the fashion world, it is a tall order to pull a collection together by the time his show opens on Wednesday night.
The fashionistas are wishing him well.
“I know that you and your creativity will be able to overcome this!” wrote Donatella Versace in the comments.
The spring-summer 2024…
