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Linen top / Jacket / Boots / Tom Ford pink handbag / imageGx / Arrow / Gigi Hadid Balmain x H&M Collection Launch October 20, 2015

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HM BALMAIN ATION

#HMBALMAINATION In dieser Saison ‘ s aufregendsten ist die Zusammenarbeit zwischen Balmain & HM. Diese Sammlung wird über den Verkauf in ausgewählten Geschäften am 5. November.

  Sezonunun en heyecan verici işbirliği olan Balmain / H&M Collection, 5 Kasım ‘ da seçili mağazalarda satışta Tiefe sind inhärent. Ich denke, dieser “kostspielig” – Kollektion das beste Stück ist dieses Kleid mit barocken details! Was denkst du? Lassen Sie uns nehmen einen Blick auf Sie.

#HMBALMAINATION KÖNNEN SIE WATCH FULL SHOW AUF DIESEM VIDEO!

#HMBALMAINATION, #Frau, #Frauen, #Mode, #Stil, #Stile, #Trendige, #Trends, #Wunderschön

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H&M x BALMAIN Logo Pullover Hoodie Size M -- $180 | Sold • • • • • • • #hmbalmain #balmain #hmbalmaination #saintbupkis #oliverrousteing #roundtwohollywood (at Austin, Texas)

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Virgil Abloh's First Louis Vuitton Drop Is Here

Hello BoF Professionals, welcome to our latest members-only briefing: The Week Ahead. Think of it as your "cheat sheet" to what everyone will be talking about on Monday.

THE CHEAT SHEET

Louis Vuitton Embraces the Drop

Louis Vuitton Menswear Spring/Summer 2019 show | Source: Getty

Virgil Abloh's debut collection for Louis Vuitton went on sale via a one-week pop-up in London

Vuitton is trying the drop model for the first time with an entire mainline collection

Burberry, Fendi, Celine and Moncler are also experimenting with drops

Select shoppers are getting their first crack at Abloh's Spring/Summer 2019 menswear collection for Louis Vuitton at the brand's first product drop. Pioneered by Hiroshi Fujiwara before being popularised by the likes of Supreme, drops — or controlled releases of new products at a clip that’s far faster than the traditional fashion cycle — are designed to drive consumer excitement with a stream of constant newness. Other luxury players are testing similar waters. But the trick will be balancing the community-fueled energy of streetwear drops, which often attract hordes of young fans, with a luxury-like shopping experience.

The Bottom Line: Too much "street" and luxury drops risk diluting carefully cultivated brand equity, but reducing them to glorified private shopping appointments could miss the magic of turning a product release into a genuine event that energises fans of the brand to show up and post on social media.

China Throws a Wrench Into Kering's 'Progressive Normalisation'

A Gucci store in China | Source: Shutterstock

Kering will report third-quarter earnings on Tuesday

Kering CFO said in April to expect “progressive normalisation” after explosive growth

Luxury stocks have plunged on fears the Chinese government will enforce a $700 limit on spending abroad

Until recently, Kering’s financial performance was as predictable as a Girard-Perregaux watch. But after years of soaring sales, on the back of white-hot Gucci, Balenciaga and the booming China luxury trade, Kering is preparing for the inevitable comedown. It’s sensible to let a little air out of the luxury bubble; Gucci CEO Marco Bizzarri isn’t wrong when he tells store employees that no company can grow at the house's current torrid pace forever. But forces beyond Kering’s control threaten to pop the bubble entirely. China is cracking down on luxury imports, which could slim the sales impact of the country’s huge outbound tourist flows at Gucci flagships around the world. And the US-China trade war could sap consumer demand in China itself. Kering shares are down 29 percent from June’s all-time high, part of a broader swoon in luxury stocks.

The Bottom Line: European luxury brands are largely at the mercy of Chinese authorities and US president Donald Trump; they don’t have an obvious alternative customer if Chinese tourists stop loading up on handbags while on holiday.

H&M Hopes Lightning Strikes Twice With Moschino

Aquaria modelling H&M X Moschino | Source: Instagram/@itsjeremyscott

Jeremy Scott’s Moschino collection for H&M debuts in a New York fashion show Wednesday

H&M’s designer collaborations started with Karl Lagerfeld in 2004; Balmain's 2015 collection was widely considered the most successful

Collections are limited and typically sell out fast but success is measured in media impressions

In keeping with the Moschino brand, everything about H&M’s latest designer collaboration is sure to be a little extra. H&M, which does about one of these a year, is clearly hoping to recreate the magic of its Balmain collaboration in 2015, which succeeded with the only measure that counts: social media impressions (#hmbalmaination was tagged 73,000 times on Instagram, #hmoschino has 2,000 so far though that's sure to rise between Wednesday's show and items going on sale November 8). These collaborations are no-brainers for luxury brands, which gain enormous exposure and a big payday while facing little stigma for briefly mingling with the masses. H&M has less to show for it - growth has slowed in the post-Balmain years.

The Bottom Line: For H&M, the success of its designer collaborations hinges on their ability to generate buzz and drive shoppers to stores where they inevitably pick up other items. But even if Moschino is a hit, repeating that success only grows harder as the brand is running out of blockbuster names.

COMMENTS OF THE WEEK

Hedi Slimane's debut collection for Celine | Source: InDigital

Anabel Maldonado's "Defense of Hedi Slimane" had the BoF community divided on the Celine designer's approach to women's fashion:

"Defenders of Slimane are stubbornly refusing to see the point - traditionally womenswear designers have been overwhelmingly male, and many would agree that the clothing has not always met every woman's needs. So when a man takes over a previously female led house that has been celebrated as an alternative to sexy dressing and turns it into cliche sex-wear, optics wise, it does appear the female voice has been silenced in favor of a man's." -Jessica Kosak

"The problem, it turns out, is not so much that men cannot tap into what women want but rather that some critics didn't like the conception of femininity that Slimane works with. But it is just that - one possible conception of femininity out of a myriad ways to imagine the dressed woman." -Frederik Højgaard

SUNDAY READING

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Source: https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/professional/virgil-ablohs-first-louis-vuitton-drop-is-here

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Une collection capsule entre Balmain et H&M pour la rentrée

C’est durant les Billboard Music Awards 2015 à Las Vegas, que H&M a annoncé la collaboration avec Balmain. Cette annonce a déjà énormément fait parler et c’est pas fini.

Le directeur artistique de Balmain, Olivier Rousteing, a posé avec Kendall Jenner et Jourdan Dunn portant toutes les deux les premières pièces de la collection H&M x Balmain sur le tapis rouge des Billboard Awards.

« Je souhaite m’adresser à ma génération : c’est mon principal objectif en tant que créateur. H&M m’offre une occasion unique de tous nous rassembler dans le monde de Balmain d’avoir un rêve et de créer un mouvement international en faveur d’un rassemblement sous le hashtag #HMBalmaination. La collaboration m’a paru extrêmement naturelle : H&M est une marque à laquelle tout le monde s’identifie. C’est un appel à l’unité et je suis partant », a déclaré Olivier Rousteing.

« Nous sommes heureux d’accueillir Balmain en tant que créateur chez H&M et l’expérience est réellement stimulante. Avec son mélange de haute-couture et de streetwear, Balmain a un style propre à lui, à la fois opulent et direct, sensuel et énergique. Il est également étroitement lié aux mondes du show-business et de la musique, ce qui renforce l’élément de surprise », précise Ann-Sofie Johansson, directrice artistique chez H&M.

La collection sera disponible à partir du 5 novembre dans 250 magasins dans le monde entier et aussi en ligne, et proposera des vêtements et des accessoires pour homme et pour femme.

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Balmain X H&M Menswear Autumn/Winter 2015/2016 New York. ๑ Last night on Wall Street in New York, the Balmain x H&M collection made its global runway debut in front of a celebrity-packed audience. Kylie Jenner, Diane Kruger, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Alexa Chung were among the guests to get an exclusive look at the glamourous, powerful and rich detailed collection designed by Olivier Rousteing. The collection will be available in around 250 stores worldwide, as well as online, starting November 5, 2015. The Balmain X H&M fashion show held Tuesday at 23 Wall Street in New York, the disemboweled raw space where Proenza Schouler and Hood by Air have staged runway shows, did the unthinkable: It made lyrics from a Backstreet Boys’ song, performed live by the boy (man) band, feel philosophical. “Am I original? Am I the only one? Am I sexual? Am I everything you need?” sang Nick Carter and crew as they performed to close the much-hyped show. In the song, “Everybody” (1997), each question is answered with a chorus of “yeah,” but one felt like muttering “nah” in regard to the show. It was a major production — one that has been immensely hyped through all social media channels, generations of Kardashians/Jenners, mainstream media and the mega-marketing bucks of a retail behemoth — but it was not original, particularly sexual or the only one of its kind. It was, in fact, an imitation. Deliberately so, as all H&M designer collaborations are imitations of the collections by the brands with which they collaborate. To seriously review the clothes here seems moot as H&M released the look book a week ago and the clothes were nearly exact replicas of pieces — genie pants, pearl-embroidered blazers, tailoring with gold buttons, and blazers and blouses with ostentatious shoulders — Olivier Rousteinghas put on the real Balmain runway in seasons past. Here, they were done in more affordable fabrics, which seemed highly logical for Rousteing’s genre of fun for a night or two. These are not forever clothes, and the cost per wear is much easier to rationalize on the H&M level. The whole enterprise, from the show-opener video featuring Kendall Jenner, apparently forced to take mass transit — a futuristic subway — and watch various sets of twins engage in stylish dance-offs,  to the double-jointed dancers that periodically performed during the show to the clothes, was extremely nostalgic for the early Nineties. Fans of Prince might draw a connection to his 1991 album “Diamonds and Pearls,” featuring “twin” dancers Diamond and Pearl. Asking questions about the stylistic value of a Balmain X H&M collection is a rhetorical exercise, although the show and its marketing strategy did seem to answer the industry question about whether fashion shows should be consumer events: In this case, yeah. Of course, Rousteing drew a gaggle of “It” girls to his front row, including Kylie Jenner, Jessica Hart, Martha Hunt and Diane Kruger. The Backstreet Boys’ appearance was orchestrated by the designer himself. “He’s a big fan,” Carter said after performing a three-song set that included “Everybody,” “Larger Than Life,” and “I Want It That Way” — all, by the way, the designer’s requests. In turn, were the Boys familiar with Rousteing’s maximalist pop stylings? “Oh yeah, it was an honor to be here,” Carter continued. Indeed it must have been —  it’s been a while since the group of five, who hail from Orlando, Florida, coincided with the fashion world, and it might be some time before they meet again. After finishing a world tour, the most high-profile engagement listed on their official site is a European cruise next spring. Before they posed for selfies with fans — everyone from Alexa Chung and Chelsea Leyland to street-style personality Di Mondo — Carter was asked about the hashtag used to promote the event: #hmbalmaination. What, pray tell, is Balmain nation? A democracy? A principality occupied only by those with more than a million followers on Instagram? “It’s nice to be part of something so powerful and elegant and something that actually stands for something,” Carter said with the sincerity of a fashion outsider. If he couldn’t quite put his finger on the founding principles of #hmbalmaination, the competitive post-show shopping scene painted a clear picture of its constitution of conspicuous consumption. “They’re like cheetahs. It’s worse than Black Friday,” said one shopper of the pop-up battleground. In the center of it stood Rousteing, pleased with his disciples’ conduct.  “I’m so happy. I’m so proud. It’s like a big achievement as a designer and as a person,” he said with Napoleonic conviction. “Tonight is just the pop-up store. On Nov. 5, it’ll be available to the whole world. This is just the beginning.” Text by Jessica Iredale and Erik Maza and Taylor Harris. #FashionShows #FashionWeeks #MensFashionShows #Catwalks #Runways #Menswear #Attires #Collections #JC的工作室 #チヤルムポン #XCLUSIV4eJC #XCLUSIV4eJC2560 #estudi_jChiyarumupon #selected_by_eJC #promoted_by_eJC #recommended_by_eJC #updated_by_eJC #FashionPhotography #StalkWithCaution #ผู้ชาย #男 #Male #Man

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BALMAIN X HM. . . . . . . . . #ootd #outfitoftheday #gay #balmain #mensfashion #hmbalmaination #smize (at Liberty Place)

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Balmain x H&M Runway Pics: See Your Fave Models!

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