In November 2022, Balenciaga released its holiday ad campaign featuring children holding teddy bears ... but rather as the art of making clothes.” The label showed 54 looks, mostly in black ...

which ‘often makes for expansive portraits of everyday eccentricities’, as Balenciaga describes – photograph the various pieces among a group of children dressed in the Balenciaga kids’ line.

This re-imagination would not have been possible without the influence of the nascent abstract art movement that grew alongside Balenciaga’s career. In the early to mid 1900s, abstract currents were ...