The Balenciaga Winter 26 Womens and Mens collection

To find the light. The Balenciaga Winter 26 Womens and Mens collection by Creative Director Pierpaolo Piccioli takes as its essence the High Renaissance artistic technique of clair-obscur —a search for the tension between darkness and light. A means of defining and describing volume, in these dual extremes we may discover new dimension. Light defined by its shadow, darkness always relieved with light. The collection finds an interplay in these inherent antinomies, the certitude and truth that one cannot exist without the other. Metaphorically, darkness and light are explored as defining elements of the human condition—creating portraits of people, evoked through cloth. New shapes and volumes are translated to a scope of modern garments. Fashion as reflection on the contemporaneous - a wardrobe of here and today, of people. Dialogue on colors—resonant of emotion, expressing feeling. The spectrum has a phosphorescent intensity, hues afforded a strength and power, a radiance, to emerge from shadow. Different generations walk together, in clothes created to symbiotically fuse them as a collective power yet celebrate them as individual forces, unity in being. Alive, collective, here, they form a fresco of humanity. Visit Balenciaga on Rodeo Drive to shop.