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At Balenciaga, Armour for Our Neo-Medieval Age

For Autumn 2021, designer Demna Gvasalia seemed to search for light in our techno-feudal darkness, writes Tim Blanks.
Balenciaga Autumn/Winter 2021. Balenciaga.
Balenciaga Autumn/Winter 2021. Balenciaga.
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Last November, New York Magazine did some crystal-ball-gazing with an issue titled “The Weirdness is Coming.” In one prescient piece, journalist Max Read wrote that “the Internet doesn’t seem to be turning us into sophisticated cyborgs so much as crude medieval peasants entranced by an ever-present realm of spirits and captive to distant autocratic warlords.” That was

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Tim Blanks
Tim Blanks

Tim Blanks is Editor-at-Large at The Business of Fashion. He is based in London and covers designers, fashion weeks and fashion’s creative class.

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