BALENCIAGA GIVES ITS SPRINGTIME TREND DISPLAY AT THE NEW YORK BIG BOARD

Models in latex masks and fetish bodysuits walked the NYSE

Comes alongside go to be given some cryptocurrency as charge

Balenciaga hosted its spring 2023 trend exhibit on the buying and selling ground of the New York Stock Exchange on Sunday, in a symbolic pass earlier than the trend residence strikes to begin accepting sure cryptocurrencies as payment.

Models carrying face-obscuring latex masks and bodysuits walked round a dimly-lit NYSE buying and selling flooring as the displays that commonly show market tickers glitched and flickered. The exhibit debuted the intently held trend house’s spring 2023 series and a hotly-anticipated Adidas collaboration, which consists of a $795 t-shirt with the NYSE emblem on it.

Event invites have been printed on stacks of Balenciaga-branded $100 payments bearing a disclaimer that “This invitation is for non-public use solely and is no longer tender.” Celebrity friends protected Kanye West, now acknowledged as Ye, as nicely as Alexa Demie, Megan Thee Stallion and New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

Balenciaga these days won extra cultural recognition for often dressing Kim Kardashian and West. Kardashian famously wore a black bodystocking at the 2021 Met Gala, and West wore Balenciaga in merchandising for his most latest album “Donda.”