It has a really, really powerful and effecting presence,” he says. There’s a rhetorical element to his work that I find really, really beguiling.”In his short time at Balenciaga, Gvasalia has designed a wardrobe’s worth of thought-provoking clothes. The storied label is based in Paris, but Gvasalia prefers to live in Zurich, where he can escape the fashion vacuum and breathe. … We’re also selling real apparel, not just T-shirts and sweatshirts.”But even if you never buy anything from Balenciaga, Gvasalia is worming his way into a conversation that goes well beyond fashion. “My dream is really that fashion can become something more than just wearing trendy clothes,” Gvasalia says.

Source: Washington Post April 23, 2019 19:18 UTC