Balmain Men's Imagines Life in Color for Fall 2024

For Fall 2024, Balmain's Olivier Rousteing was inspired by the sapeurs, whose dandy closets mixed French tailoring with vivid African patterns under the the strict ten commandments of the Société des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Elégantes. Since the 1960s, the kaleidoscopic style trope has gone on to dominate the streets of Kinshasa, Paris and Harlem -- and now, it's become the latest descriptor for Balmain menswear.Simultaneously, Rousteing's runway riffs on 100 years of African-American mus...