BALENCIAGA'S HAUTE CRASH AND BURN

[@specticent]

live without balenciaga love not balenciaga laugh at balenciaga

[@omnionika152]

LMFAOOOOOOOO

[@iamluc1]

it's extravagant

[@larryapple2004]

That's poetry right there

[@maypoole5854]

This is it

[@RussellJacadeMorton]

ouch

[@marthawolfsen5809]

Not only are these clothes ugly, but they look almost impossible to wear. The models kicking the excess fabric away at each step just to get across the room often look miserably uncomfortable.

[@markrice4808]

It's fashion. It's not supposed to be comfortable.

[@Mikey-mb6lb]

@@markrice4808 but is it supposed to be ugly?

[@jcs3330]

I believe 'Haute Couture' doesn't recognise form over function, neither in most cases does it consider the human form and therefore personally I do not take it seriously, but also see the art within it. Has for high street 'high-end' fashion, well I do agree, that some designers do 'pump-out' some atrocities for those individuals who avidly follow them and would sell their own mother to purchase 'lets say'... a pair of 'exaggerated' oversized pair boots, designed to look 6 times the actual size of their feet and completely throw off the entire proportions of the human form. But hey!.. too much money and the inability to do the math that they look ridco!.

[@IconandEveryman]

You wearing your bedsheets to create your own haute couture. I live!❤😂

[@hopegold883]

And just kept it on to the end! Talk about commitment to the bit. 🏆

[@CKLee-rs4kl]

Oh yes, I'm going to start pulling my sheets from the dryer and just wrap them around myself and call it haute couture!

[@randyfernando4442]

I dont understand why so many designers are forcing streetwear to be haute couture. 🙄

[@rudyspective1870]

THIS!!

[@randyfernando4442]

@@Luke-go3ey and thats haute couture. 🧵🪡❤

[@ferg0409]

@@Luke-go3eythere is actually alot of artistry gone into making all these garments shapes and form and textures. Please dont comment if you dont know the processes prevalent in the collection

[@Girlbffr98]

@@ferg0409THIS

[@Viviano_Magami]

And none of them even know what's a streetwear?

[@bettymurrell5628]

I still haven’t figured out why everyone doesn’t realize that their design is actual trash.

[@M0odyBlue]

The emperor has no clothes.

[@assi7961]

@@M0odyBlue Thats it.

[@Toywins]

​@@M0odyBlueFACTS!

[@obsiangravel]

Eco chambers

[@magdlynstrouble2036]

Unironically Derelicte from Zoolander. For years.

[@germann_r]

Couldn’t agree with you more! Unfortunately you didn’t mention the faux fur coats. I thought ok, crazy blue fur coat... boring... But then I learnt it took 13’000 hours to make it, handpicking and arranging millions of acrilyc hairs and the sewing them all onto the silk organza, and then dying each piece, and then cutting that “fur” for 40 hours to make it look all wild. It blew my mind! That’s real couture! But when you see it for the first time it looks like cheap ugly fur coat... And only when you learn how much time and effort it takes to make such a piece you think ok wow. And that’s a problem for me with this show. Shouldn’t it make you say WOW the moment you see it? And not later when you make yourself like it in a way because you respect all the work done by couture people... You know?

[@juliawidmaier5334]

Ooh this is a VERY good point. When he showed the hand painting for the shirts I was in awe because that takes time and skill, but that coat you mentioned I would've never even given it a second thought if you hadn't explained its structure. It does make it all haute couture but it doesn't make it anymore exciting or inviting to be in or look at.

[@RubmaLione]

Not just wow, but also, that *looks* like it was laborious to make, or so precise that it could not be gotten anywhere else. If the end result is that it looks cheap and unremarkable, who is to really care if the technique was insane? Still looks like it cost $40 at a thrift store.

[@M0odyBlue]

I am sorry all those acrylic hairs had to sacrifice their lives for that ugly coat.

[@raraavis7782]

That sounds a lot like how high end human hair wigs are made. Or those hyper realistic human figures, they now sometimes use in museums and exhibitions. Those are seriously impressive. You just cannot tell, you're not looking at actual human skin with hair sprouting from it, even from up close.

[@assi7961]

@@M0odyBlue So funny, you made my day😂

[@ErinShannon617]

My mom used that threat about throwing all my stuff in the trash too, and it looked like that dress.

[@narum.4247]

tbh with Balenciaga for me it's not even "Will it be better this year?" like with, say, Chanel, but more like "How bad will it be this year"and what arethey going to wrap Kim Kardashian in?"

[@specticent]

SAMEEE

[@CKLee-rs4kl]

Well, the seems to have been obsessed with her bubble gum pink super-puffer jacket outfit. As far as I'm concerned, if you dress a fad you have an extremely short shelf life.

[@ruth-ej7yl]

At this point we don’t need Balenciaga

[@baby-girlification]

No more Balenciaga, we have evolved past the need for Balenciaga

[@m.woodsrobinson9244]

Not this one, anyhow!

[@charlesstewart6191]

What we need is "real" Balenciaga !

[@wlflwronline]

No we need Balenciaga we just don’t need Demna

[@hamasakibibou7433]

They should have close after their pedo moment

[@Rhaifha]

I just hate Balenciaga in recent years. It all feels like ragebait and "whatever can we sucker people into buying now?"

[@rudyspective1870]

"Lazy Margiela looks.." EXACTLY!

[@missg.5940]

How do models a) keep a straight face b) turn red from embarrassment c) walk

[@barbarian-furu]

it feels like 11 year olds playing "fashion show"

[@kari8187]

If the pile of clothes I have in the corner of my room, suddenly became sentient 😂😂😂

[@CKLee-rs4kl]

Run for your life! The movie, "When clothes Attack!" Oh, the horror!

[@emma1540]

I hate everything about this collection, petition to remove Demna 🤢 Coming here for your sassy humour and that's it! 😂

[@bfs1209]

people actually sit through this with a straight face???

[@karina.kagramanova]

And take videos

[@Eurydice-cj6tv]

For me, the whole thing reads misery, masochism, self-importance and disdain, like Demna hates humans . The models echo that - faces obscured, trudging, lumbering, toiling under the weight of all that...stuff.

[@kalayne6713]

Over the decades, I have decided that most haute couture is designed by misogynists.

[@xaza8uhitra4]

exactly

[@juliawidmaier5334]

There was nothing even slightly joyful about this collection beside the butterfly masks and even those felt tacked on. I really do like the t-shirts and oversized jackets but we've seen those a million times with Balenciaga. Idk, I guess they're trying to recover from the scandal but idk how this is helping.

[@feltaria9177]

That dress made of jackets lumped together looks like a Drag Race sewing challenge 😂

[@beckstheimpatient4135]

The sponge dress was better couture than this.

[@patfarrell9629]

The oversized jackets and pants reminds me of Kanye West design, lol.

[@RubmaLione]

To be fair, he worked with Demna to create that look. It's just awkward now that they've ended their partnership and yet Balenciaga continues to put out the same designs.

[@D00BROWN]

Luke you cracked me up!😂😂 I love you sitting there wrapped in sheets!

[@maps_x]

I preferred his version, tbh

[@leonardhq4527]

But am I the only one that noticed he needs to wash his bedding? I feel like those stains are a little to telling…🫢

[@SoaringSpear]

Scuba satin is just neoprene …

[@CKLee-rs4kl]

a lot like "vegan leather" or "luxury vinyl". Ain't no such thing in either case.

[@janedaniel7288]

No, no, no! Shockingly bad!

[@frankmuehle3490]

Adore your sandworm impression! 😍

[@ic1638]

Demna attempted to make child SA fashionable. While there was slight pearl-clutching from the fashionable set, all was forgiven in a flash. Shameful. Demna is repulsive. He allowed the world to see what he is really made of. That he still has an international platform shows the degree of corruption in the fashion world and beyond. Balenciaga should have fired Demna years ago. Pro-tip: it's never too late, but the clock is ticking.

[@candyce6233]

Exactly. It’s like I see and hear more folks wear Balenciaga this past year than ever before. I don’t understand how that wasn’t a bigger issue and how quickly everyone who has a platform seemed to forget 😢

[@DNSxDK]

Because nobody was hurt or abused… Go to Dior and Armani for that.. or look into Gucci’s family cover up of SA… Byeee

[@christopherfeatherley]

Hi, Luke. Big fan of your channel! In regards to hand painting on clothes: most clothes with graphics are screen printed or use DTG. It's extremely rare to see hand painted clothes, much less in a mass production setting; it's labour intensive and prone to human errors (images looking off). I could, therefore, see why hand painted clothing would be considered haute couture. The clothes Balanciaga painted on this season were very plain, however 😅

[@itsyagirlvicku]

Yeah they're using fancy techniques to make things that look cheap as fuck (like the fur coats). That's probably intentional, but yaaaawn.

[@isabellefischer5145]

I don't agree, because they made it to look like cheap printed stuff. If it's handpainted, it's supposed to blow you away and be superbly unique. Otherwise, what's the point???

[@christopherfeatherley]

@@isabellefischer5145 That's why my last sentence said it looked very plain. They could have done so much more

[@claire2088]

Balenciaga has seemed so one note recently, feels like demna can only manage shock-value outfits and the more of them we all see the less impact that has. Like a few years down the line and most of what he's made will be forgotten edit: I made this comment before watching the vid, luke and me are clearly on the same page with the one note comment 😂 also, the point of haute couture is that it's handmade for the person with fittings- if it's selling online it's ready to wear/made to measure

[@seekittycat]

I don't know what type of casual clientele who can wear these as "real clothing"? It doesn't look like you can really move or do anything in some of these pieces without them falling, getting in the way or getting caught on things.

[@ckind2098]

6:31 The head-to-jacket ratio here is really giving goomba from the Super Mario Brothers movie energy

[@andrewcasey3556]

Many of my fashion friends have not been on the Balenciaga train lately but this was the first collection I felt seriously disappointed

[@kwebst1]

😂love the clean up your room comment

[@sulalee7413]

I hate to just agree but I agree with your review. Obviously, I hate doing so but I just don't see what's new, innovative, or creative about this messy pile of same old stuff. 👍

[@Melonfroyo]

Suddenly it all starts to make sense when you mention Peter Copping has left. Him working with Demna created a nice balance between weird ideas and true craftsmanship. No wonder this season feels like a total chaos.

[@celinhamaui2023]

Luv your Balenciaga costume, better than their fashion show

[@Barbie_Esther]

Marc Jacobs is at Walmart. It's over, kids. I'm an elder who grew up with the 90s supermodels and still looks like one. Just wear it well and you'll be fine.

[@JJ_Magnificent]

So is Michael Kors, Gucci, Prada the list goes on lol.. 🤷🏽‍♂

[@M0odyBlue]

Didn’t we see some of these looks on Project Runway challenges? Non traditional fabrics challenge? Denise challenge? Puffer jackets?Belts? Whatever happened to true creativity and art in fashion? This was not it.

[@audi4444player]

your bedsheet look is actually great lol, I feel like it makes more of a statement about clothing than the balenciaga collection

[@benzaiten933]

+ Luke can unwrap them again and use it a bedwear, as intended, so far more useful than those 'dresses'.

[@amelaine82]

I was looking for more Vogue 7 Days 7 Looks and there are British Vogue, French, Spanish. We need more from you!!!!

[@frizzky7976]

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! This is why we love you so much!!! This is by far the most honest unbiased review, unlike any so-called 'influencers' you are not afraid to show criticism & honesty

[@Cantseemuch]

I went to a exhibition of original Cristobal balenciaga garments in den haag some time ago and was completely blown away by the dresses. Still modern, impeccable, gorgeous. Additionally I am a trained dressmaker with pattern making being my favorite part of the job. That exhibition was heaven. There isn’t much left of that vibe and it is sad.

[@dariofontana6040]

Literally, Balenciaga is a DUMPSTER FIRE 😒🔥🔥🔥

[@susanbrown5004]

😢 I can't finish this. This designer hates women

[@hrhsophiathefirst4060]

I own a hand silk screened skirt by Laura Kim that she made for me as payment for wearing her Pratt school design. Does that mean I have haute couture too! Yeah me! This was a farce.

[@kellymcdaniel6272]

The coat pile dress is giving the scene in the labyrinth when the goblins are appearing in Sarah’s room😂💜

[@pyzikscott]

Snoozefest! “Clean up your bedroom” collection is spot on!

[@Ali-in-Wonderland.]

I live for Flack-throwing form!!!! 4:31 and 14:27 with the Luke’s Bespoke Demna at Balenciaga inspired no seams couture. I’ll have my SA come pick one up for this winter season Ty 😂

[@dawngreene6145]

It's just low brow😂😂😂😂 but your "creation" at the end looked better than entire show 😂😂 love you 💕💕💕💕

[@gunessatiyuksel]

As a fashion designer , its a shame and disrespectfull to couture, i mean i am speachless sad

[@dotsamantha]

Luke. I enjoy your takes so much. If you havent seen it yet, please check out the MLB All Star game red carpet. I did not know they were doing that becaose I never watch the pregame. I was peeing laughing. It's nearly just all hot men in suits which yawn, but its so dumb, I loved it. I am an avid baseball fan but didnt know this was a thing. They were very successful at selling me on the pregame show because now I'm gojng to have to watch the corny red carpet every year.

[@dwysan]

If someone told me that 30mins before the show Demna decided to make a finale look to poke fun at Comme Des Garçons and Gareth Pugh and came up with that hot mess I'd believe them

[@RubmaLione]

It's haute streetwear. I personally loathe streetwear so most of his collections will never be for me, but I do appreciate his willingness to experiment with materials and manufacturing techniques. Still don't like this collection, do not like Demna's overall vision for the band, and how derivative most of his best looks are of other designers. He's radical for the sake of being radical.

[@in_99]

Idk how to describe a collection that looks like it’s trying to be “what a layman pictured when you tell him runway fashion” but this pretty much sums it up to me

[@wendilandkammer8368]

This collection reminds me of the bridal shower game where the guests are split into teams and they have to create a wedding dress out of toilet paper. I appreciate the idea of clothing being art. But I didn't see anything that I could call art. The hats were hideous. Draped tee shirts as hats are the teenage tendency to drop the clothes where ever when they are done wearing it. But for as much as I really disliked this collection, I enjoy the variety of designers work that you bring. Seeing the good, the bad and the fabulous is a good time.

[@mollypocrass4562]

It reminds me of another bridal shower game. The bride opens gifts, and someone else makes a hat with the wrapping paper on a disposable plate.

[@deidrebingham3856]

Thank you for saying out loud what I was thinking. This was sad.

[@Stargirl4lyfe]

the collection is just boring. Its not haute couture just because demna says so, this is ragebait street fashion. We've had enough of demna, he just isn't that good of a designer and is just ruining balenciaga and their image. I won't forget their campaign with children, that should've been the last straw. He's trying to make balenciaga his own brand, not Cristobal Balenciaga's idea and brand. He's trying to erase the artistic history of balenciaga and its working, because most people know balenciaga for trashy overpriced streetwear, not for being an iconic couture house.

[@DorcasLandry]

The models look like ZOMBIES!

[@benzaiten933]

them being hardly able to move with those pants, dresses and weird, pointy shoes also didn't help their case.

[@kalayne6713]

I am happy because I wouldn't need to lose an ounce of weight for most of this crap because you can't see the body underneath. Yay! (Ghastly, absolutely ghastly).

[@martijnkeisers5900]

With such an amazing legacy this could have been such a wonderful house..

[@merahertel6256]

OMG! Luke.... never laughed so hard. You're killin me with those bed sheets! 😂😂😂

[@morethanabowtie477]

I agree with your review. I miss Balenciaga when Nicholas Ghesquiere was the creative director. He kept in mind the many contributions Cristobal made and like him pushing fashion forward. I think eventually Ghesquiere would’ve done Haute Couture since he was doing Balenciaga Premiere for celebrities. I think Ricardo Tisci, Gareth Puth would be great designers for Balenciaga. Even Phoebe Philo, if she didn’t have her own label now.

[@StarrAtlantis]

You are the cutest person on the planet! You are fantastic. 😊

[@YingjunRuan-hd6em]

Balenciaga should still be boycotted for involving children.

[@hazeluzzell]

I’ve been waiting a long time to hear this from you…

[@johnayalachef]

Thank you for the assessment. Your informed opinions stand for something greater than the artless styles presented. ❤

[@nicolelourensz5222]

Thanks for your commentary. At this point, I can only mourn the skill and craftsmanship that once was haute couture at Balenciaga. It just feels like gimmick, rather than innovation to me.

[@gobyfish1399]

Luke's last outfit, the bedsheet look was sooooo couture .....

[@kathyjohnson2043]

The jackets with the wrap around panel are the only good piece in the collection. I liked the denim one best. However, it doesn't feel like haute couture. It feels like it belongs in readymade. No special construction techniques or materials are required

[@siddhantchoudhury8524]

HONEY!! THE AMBANI WEDDING!!!! PLSSSS!!! THE DRESSES AND THE JEWELS 💎

[@silvermanandbuddy5111]

Absolute shit.Listen to Luke. He's on the pulse always

[@aliciametters2025]

I enjoy your critiques so much! Your’re the most creative aspect! This line is, I don’t know what it is other than nope, nada, non! 😮

[@KdogBites]

Your amazing look was a showstopper!

[@pedropikapika]

😂 Luke you're the best 😂

[@W3S3333]

Demna's Balenciaga is very hit and miss for me. The pieces I love I'll likely love for a long time because they're unique and unusual, but the pieces I don't care about are extremely forgettable. I'm no fashionista and haute couture isn't even relevant to my life. I do love my Balenciaga shoes and my Balenciaga Crush Tote purse though.

[@Laura-mi3nv]

Well, at least they're concerned about us getting too much sun on our faces.

[@RussellJacadeMorton]

wow. im so excited to have found you... yet finding it difficult to forgive myself for not finding you sooner. ttyl indeed.

[@blktauna]

Like I've said for years... Demna is a hack. Y'all finally catching up

[@e.goldmanhilbert9233]

I love your fashion critique. You are so good in that and so smart.

[@AMAZONAS279]

Bravíssimo! 👏👏👏Great review, you have a point, you know your stuff! ❤

[@gerardacronin334]

125 feet of black nylon would be SO uncomfortable to wear and a fire risk! Ridiculous! Whoever would buy this kind of nonsense is easily fooled.

[@citizendan6390]

Could you provide some analysis and commentary on the beloved Off-White fashion brand. I really loved their collars with Nike but have since really fallen out of fashion (forgive the pun). god bless and happy week to you and this community.

[@saramiller9529]

I feel they have continued to get celeb cred. However, some of this reminds me of 1990s JNCO. So, not couture. Can I say this is so confusing for a high end house?

[@nasa7661]

Balencia-GAG. Just. No. That's all.

[@KloiePicot]

love teh bed sheets! So cheeky and yes I agree...try and go outside with this and just casually put a LABEL on it

[@LA-ue2ph]

weird that you can't even unabashedly criticise balenciaga without qualifying it with "i see what he was trying to do here" as if demna is one of the greatest designers to ever live, it's a brand that thrives off marketing and subversive pieces that are extremely wearable so they appeal to every type of instagram influencer as well as people who think wearing a $700 under armour hoodie is a smart way of making fun of fashion when in reality they've only ridiculed themselves by actually paying that much for cheap made in china junk

[@mauritz1021]

No haute couture here! Shocking!

[@margaretgarana911]

I thought your title was saying the toilet paper had been used before…..😮

[@Toywins]

Luke... If you don't do the BET Awards??!! It was very interesting to say the least! 😂

[@AskareBast]

Luke I just saw a short about Krikor Jabotian and his designs are amazing. Would you please do a review?

[@SydneyChandler]

This is a hot mess fashion buffet. Balenciaga was elegant and classy, now it's a dumpster fire.

[@youngandrestlessjean3634]

Poor Cristobal, rolling down the hill in grave as we speak.

[@larskars5835]

Intelligent and informed commentary. Balenciaga's genius was relevant to his time, thus revolutionary. Demna's work is a rehash of everything we've seen since CDG 1990s. Nothing new here, surface at best. There is something to be said for simplicity, as in not trying so hard.

[@maya-gur695]

Balenciaga is just... no.

[@julieannegarfield3108]

I love your videos! Watching abd appreciating your sass sat in your own bed sheets 😂 thank you 😊

[@solrak742]

His brother is surpassing him in my opinion. Vetements has been better than balenciaga recently

[@Krishicher]

Hello, I am not your audience normally but I appreciate this video. You have a pretty vast command of the history. I’m hoping you’ll be able to help settle a simple industry question that my friends have refused to answer since 1989. We were watching CNN on a Sunday morning, and Elsa Klench was reporting about NY Fashion Week. I didn’t see a single garment that would be acceptable for a PTA meeting, a dinner at a fancy restaurant, or a night at the opera. Everything was wild, incongruent, clownish. I asked why the runway was irrelevant to something that average people can wear. They laughed at me and said, “You just don’t get it.” Well, that was obvious. I don’t think I would have asked if I had. Let me add more context. As a child, I had seen reruns of I Love Lucy, The Beverly Hillbillies, Bewitched, the Munsters, where an upscale fashion show was featured. Yes, the models were thinner than Mrs. Diddlydo at the bank, and yes, the clothing was more elegant than what anyone might wear to the bank. But the designs were not so outlandish that Mrs. D. might be elegant herself in an appropriately fitted gown at a gala. Another forceful influence was the Paul Newman /Joanne Woodward movie A New Kind of Love from 1963. Their characters went to A-List designer shows, did quick sketches, and snuck out. They then took the sketches to their bosses as pirate booty. Mass merchandising started for discount lines, and clothing hit the stores before the designer’s. None of these garments were outrageous or controversial. The runway was RTW. No old ladies (or young men) were baffled. So I can guess that if Gautier, Westwood, or Prada do circus, it’s just that. Circus. One will never see Mrs. D. In any context wearing circus. So maybe it’s only circus for circus’s sake. People go to the circus all the time. But, the crux of my question is how does outrageous cacophony sell a dress? Clothes in Lord & Taylor never look like anything represented on Fashion Week runways. How is a Converse high top hat selling simple, strappy heels? Those ‘50s and ‘60s examples had beautiful clothing that one could imagine anyone could, and would, wear. If you have help for my 35 year old question, I’d so welcome that. Regards, Chris

[@byronclear6332]

I was patiently waiting for this one! ❤❤ It honestly all feels too close to his brothers work over at vetements

[@SGW-love]

the goth t-shirts with the big black pants and chains... were so good. i'd love one of those tees. so good..

[@GraceAdd22]

Another video on the Ambani wedding 👀

[@nicolaslandman-tj7ez]

Very sharp analysis. Love the lazy Margiela and Margielism reference, spot on

[@realmccoy18]

there's nothing democratic about Haute Couture or even ready to wear high fashion collection...it's total hypocrisy

[@natmccallion]

Best venue I’ve seen for a student fashion show! 🖤

[@happymv5350]

Darling - already done. Let's move on.