Beyoncé has a brand new collaborator: French luxurious vogue home Balmain.
The singer, who seems on the April cowl of Vogue France, introduced on Friday that she has co-created a Balmain high fashion assortment with Olivier Rousteing, Balmain’s artistic director. It comes a day after The Hollywood Reporter broke the information that Beyoncé’s Ivy Park and Adidas mutually agreed to half methods after 5 years of working collectively.
Renaissance Couture by Beyoncé x Balmain contains 16 couture outfits devoted to the 16 songs on Beyoncé’s Grammy-winning Renaissance album.
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“Thanks @olivier_rousteing and @balmain for bringing RENAISSANCE to life in couture,” Beyoncé wrote on Instagram. “Designing alongside you was releasing — thanks for permitting me to rejoice the human kind, to take creative dangers, to push boundaries and to freely categorical myself.”
“To the @voguefrance crew, thanks for trusting in our imaginative and prescient and sharing it with the world,” she added.
On the Vogue France cowl, Beyoncé wears a shouldered gown and thermoformed black velvet hat set with rhinestones. When posting the duvet on Instagram, she included lyrics from “I’m That Woman,” the opening observe on Renaissance: “Touching every thing in my plain view, and every thing subsequent to me will get lit up, too.”
In a press release, Beyoncé known as Rousteing “a dream collaborator and a continuously innovating and evolving artistic.”
“All that he has completed as a Black designer in breaking down and opening doorways has been inspiring,” she continued. “From our very first assembly, to his designs over time for my performances and appearances, I knew someday I’d work with him on a group. I’m so happy with what we created and the synergy that fashioned between our groups.”
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The April challenge of Vogue France might be accessible on newsstands and digitally on Wednesday.
“When Beyoncé first launched RENAISSANCE, she talked about that she hoped that she would encourage all of us ‘to launch the wiggle.’ Really, she managed to push me to launch an entire lot greater than that! Her spirit, tunes, commitments and messages pushed me to broaden my vogue imaginative and prescient, triggering a tidal wave of latest concepts, continuous sketching and a starvation to experiment with new methods,” Rousteing stated in a press release. “I might be without end grateful to her for all of that inspiration. And I’m particularly grateful that she agreed to companion with me because the co-designer of this new RENAISSANCE couture assortment.”
