.BALENCIAGA's current creative director Demna coaxed Slavik out of retirement for his second couture collection, paraded Wednesday at 10 Avenue George V — and as a thank you, he gifted her a replica of that 1966 dress.
Demna learned about Slavik during his collection research, and had his heritage department track her down. She was initially reluctant to return to the runway.
But she said it was “love at first sight” when she encountered the designer Christian Dior dubbed “the master of us all.” “It was extraordinary to be engaged at Balenciaga since he was the greatest couturier, the most esteemed, the most prestigious,” she said. With his dark nail varnish, facial scruff and wardrobe of rumpled, oversize tailoring and hoodies, Demna cuts a different figure from the founder, typically photographed in a white smock with a shirt and tie.
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