Fashion Week

BALENCIAGA Haute Couture Fall-Winter 2025-26

Recently, it has been challenging to keep track of the frenetic carousel of personnel changes (or, more accurately, reshuffles) at fashion houses: Sarah Burton's move from McQueen to Givenchy, Alessandro Michele from Gucci to Valentino, Pierpaolo Piccioli from Valentino to Balenciaga, and Demna from Balenciaga to Gucci. These moves are somewhat reminiscent of musical chairs, but I want to believe that there is more logic to it than just a thoughtless change of places.