Balenciaga SS 2022

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This is quite a start. I'm almost surprised they didn't blow the surprise and bust it out a few weeks early at the Met, just to do it. On the right person -- styled the right way -- it could've worked as a fashion statement on the death of glorifying the Old South. Maybe.

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One thing is for sure: many of these are explosively grim.

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How about Emma Corrin for this?

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Maya Rudolph. She loves a robe.

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Salma Hayek

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Billie Eilish

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The SHOES. Give them to Thomas Jane!

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Amber Valetta got such a straightforward outfit, comparatively.

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Shin bags!

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This is like if Matt Damon had a distant cousin who is a reverend.

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Ooh, okay. That's nice. Olivia Wilde.

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Katie Holmes

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Tracee Ellis Ross

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Elliot Page got some seriously robotic-looking boots. Do those have jet packs built in?

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Isabelle seems as surprised as I am that she's here.

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And this is the designer, clearly taking a page from his ensemble for Kim Kardashian. Not a page I would expect anyone to want to... rip out and frame.