Balenciaga SS27 by Pierpaolo Piccioli: couture stitching on a white shirt, bias-cut jeans Cristóbal never used, couture into the daily wardrobe, the Tennis Club
Pierpaolo Piccioli has been at Balenciaga for a year, following Demna, and showed his first couture collection for the house in July. This collection carries that couture into ordinary clothes: shirts, T-shirts and denim, worked with couture stitching and cut. Bias cutting lets fabric follow the body without side seams, which is why the jeans needed no out-seams. Piccioli found no bias cut in the founder's archive. "Cristóbal never used the bias if you look in the archive," he said.