Fashion Scoop: Balmain Creative Director Olivier Rousteing Shares His Thoughts on #Diversity, and Nicki Minaj To Star in Comedy Series
- Balmain’s creative director Olivier Rousteing is sheer inspiration
to say the least and a newly minted guest editor this month on CNN Style.
If you don’t know much about Rousteing’s story, he has overcome a
number of challenges, including abandonment by his biological parents at
a young age. His guest editorship uniquely isn’t going to be just about
fashion, but what he has termed as #diversity. He shared these thoughts
in the inaugural post, “when the press announced that I was the new
creative director for Balmain the thing that was most shocking for a
lot of people was not my age (I was 26 at the time) but my color, and
that really surprised me. Suddenly there were all these stories about me
being the first black designer in a luxury, heritage fashion house.” (Though Edward Buchanan at Bottega Veneta and Patrick Robinson at Paco Rabanne preceded him). Rousteing continues, Sometimes
the fashion crowd think they’re really modern and avant-garde, but I
think the system can also be quite old fashioned. I’m proud today to
speak about a world where you walk down the street and see so much
diversity, different people, different colors, different races. It’s
what I want to try to express in my catwalk, in my casting. All my
girls, no matter their age, they can be mothers, they can be 20 years
old, they can have different body shapes and be different colors. Asian,
American, African, European — they’re beautiful, strong women who are
proud to be on the runway.” Yes, Olivier! I can’t wait to read more of his honest insights in this powerful series. (CNN Style)
- You may think this already existed (actually I definitely did!), but
apparently Nike had no female basketball apparel line, designed by
women. This Tuesday, Nike Women revealed its Elite Basketball
performance collection, an apparel line designed by females for female
athletes. Retailers, especially powerful ones like Nike, can shape
consumer culture and behavior. Designing basketball apparel with female
athletes in mind gives a voice to the young girls playing the sport
today who will aspire to the WNBA. In this ultra-competitive industry,
it only takes one activewear giant to lead the way for the others to
follow swiftly behind. (Fashionista) (Image: Nike)
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