Balenciaga Brought Gimp Suits, Big Boots, and Fake Money to Wall Street for SS23

Balenciaga SS23.

Late Sunday morning, the off-duty fashion crowd descended on Wall Street for the Balenciaga Spring Summer 2023 show at the New York Stock Exchange. Models layered in latex gimp suites and corporate tailoring stormed the trading floor to hard techno under the light of flickering Nasdaq reports in a performance that featured giant boots, paper coffee cups, and a Demnafied collaboration with Adidas. Celebrities like Ye and Pharrell took in the campy capitalist critique from the front row alongside nightlife icons like Susanne Bartsch and Amanda Lepore, who observed after the show that “Money is the biggest fetish.” Here, our editor-in-chief Mel Ottenberg and fashion director Dara take the photographer Daniel Arnold behind the scenes.

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