. BALENCIAGA's Demna Gvasalia transformed Gucci's GG canvas with Bs for a range of accessories presented on the catwalk for the spring 2022 coed collection.
POWER OF TWO: The internet lit up in April when Alessandro Michele unveiled a Gucci collection that included interpretations of the silhouettes and emblems of current Balenciaga.Now Demna Gvasalia has continued what’s dubbed The Hacking Project with Balenciaga’s coed spring 2022 collection. Unveiled online on Sunday with artist Eliza Douglas modeling every look, the lineup included a range of “conceptual interpretations of Gucci’s recognizable signatures as Balenciaga products.
Gvasalia zeroed in mainly on the Florentine house’s iconic GG monogram canvas — which dates back to the ’60s — and transformed it with double-B logos. These appear on a range of bags that are otherwise near ringers for Gucci ones. With arch humor and a wink to René Magritte, Gvasalia spray-painted “This is Not a Gucci Bag” on the largest tote. There are also small leather goods, caps, BB-buckled belts and scarves.
“My approach was very minimal. I didn’t change much,” Gvasalia said in an interview, confessing what a thrill it was to “vandalize a bit” the BB tote with black paint. “I had the pleasure of doing that on the prototype.” The purposeful and corporate-approved appropriations — both Gucci and Balenciaga are owned by French luxury group Kering — fit neatly into a Balenciaga collection whose overriding theme was altered realities, often at the hands of technological or other sleights of hand.
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