Latest Pierre balmain Podcast Episodes
3.1: Go West, Balmain! Olivier Rousteing On His Balmain Resort 2024 Collections
L'Atelier Balmain - December 14, 2023 13:47 - 20 minutesBlending two impressive heritages, the 2024 Balmain Resort Collections build upon the compelling legacy of Monsieur Balmain, melding his passion for American dynamism with the house’s mastery of French craftsmanship. For this podcast, Olivier Rousteing discusses how his decorative motifs ch...
2.7 Olivier Rousteing: My Balmain Fall 2023 Collection
L'Atelier Balmain - September 07, 2023 08:39 - 39 minutes“My last runway surprised more than a few,” explains Olivier Rousteing. “Coverage of previous Balmain shows often focused on the fashion-week festivals and spectacles—but for our Fall 2023 Balmain Women’s designs, my team and I were determined to steer clear of the fireworks. Instead, we shone a...
2.6 Josephine Baker: Superstar, War Hero, Activist and Balmain Muse
L'Atelier Balmain - June 30, 2023 11:49 - 50 minutesFor this episode, Vogue Writer and Editor Lynn Yaeger returns to explain why she is so inspired by the fascinating life of Josephine Baker. Born into a life of poverty, segregation and racial violence in Saint Louis, Josephine Baker managed to escape what seemed to have been her destiny—eve...
2.5 Villa Balmain: Gems, Bees And Hexagon Garden
L'Atelier Balmain - November 30, 2022 15:00 - 37 minutesPierre Balmain’s early architectural training was clearly reflected in his distinctive mastery of haute couture’s volumes and strict tailoring. It also pushed him to partner with leading architects of his day on the construction of impressive structures, most notably Villa Balmain, the designer'...
2.4: The Rousteing Era: The Key Moments
L'Atelier Balmain - November 02, 2022 17:28 - 51 minutesAs we wrap up our series of in-depth conversations with Olivier Rousteing about his ten years of guiding Balmain, John Gilligan sits down again with Rousteing to talk about the Creative Director’s favorite house moments of the past decade. From a beautiful classical ballet at the Paris Opera Hou...
2.3: The Rousteing Era: The Key Campaigns
L'Atelier Balmain - August 01, 2022 11:00 - 45 minutesFor Olivier Rousteing, a house campaign marks the final creative moment of the season’s collection. And Rousteing is continually searching out surprising, engaging, and entertaining tools—new visions, new platforms—that he can rely on to ensure that each of his campaigns leaves a memorable impre...
2.2 The Rousteing Era: The Key Runways
L'Atelier Balmain - May 06, 2022 14:57 - 58 minutesFor this episode of the Balmain podcast, we continue our series of conversations with Creative Director Olivier Rousteing, who explains the inspirations, designs and presentations that help set apart his favorite runways—as well as the challenges that he and his team had to overcome during the l...
2.1 The Rousteing Era: “Hello Olivier, It's Beyoncé”
L'Atelier Balmain - April 07, 2022 16:07 - 43 minutesLast season’s podcast focused on some of the legendary moments, designs, images and personalities associated with Pierre Balmain and his legendary “New French Style”— highlighting how Monsieur Balmain’s unique and fresh designs helped to usher in the postwar era’s golden age of Paris couture. ...
1.8: Incredible Beauties, Legendary Photographers And Iconic Images
L'Atelier Balmain - September 20, 2021 15:00 - 1 hourPierre Balmain’s designs were key ingredients in some of the twentieth century’s most important fashion shootings. Month after month, season after season, the house’s couture creations were worn by beautiful models in incredible locations, captured by talented photographers and published by the ...
1.7: Fun, Fear and Fate
L'Atelier Balmain - July 29, 2021 14:55 - 1 hourA key person behind the rapid early growth of Balmain and smooth operations of the legendary flagship at 44 François Premier was Ginette Spanier. Spanier was the first person to be named as Balmain’s Directrice, (the Director of the house), and she remained in that position for almost thirty yea...
A New French Style, Part 4: Horst, Gruau and Iconic Balmain Images
L'Atelier Balmain - March 29, 2021 15:46 - 48 minutesWe start this episode with an examination of an iconic 20th-Century photograph: the black-and-white image of Gertrude Stein, seated in Pierre Balmain’s showroom, which was captured by the fashion photographer Horst for Vogue in 1946. Maira Kalman, the celebrated author, illustrator and designer...
1.6: A New French Style, Part 4: Horst, Gruau and Iconic Balmain Images
L'Atelier Balmain - March 29, 2021 15:46 - 48 minutesWe start this episode with an examination of an iconic 20th-Century photograph: the black-and-white image of Gertrude Stein, seated in Pierre Balmain’s showroom, which was captured by the fashion photographer Horst for Vogue in 1946. Maira Kalman, the celebrated author, illustrator and designer...
1.5: A New French Style, Part 3: Beaton, Society and Balmain
L'Atelier Balmain - March 29, 2021 15:33 - 1 hourSeated in the front row of the first Balmain show, alongside his friends Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, was the fascinating English Renaissance man, Cecil Beaton. The author and film director Lisa Immordino-Vreeland joins this episode of l’Atelier Balmain to discuss the fascinating life and...
A New French Style, Part 3: Beaton, Society and Balmain
L'Atelier Balmain - March 29, 2021 15:33 - 1 hourSeated in the front row of the first Balmain show, alongside his friends Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, was the fascinating English Renaissance man, Cecil Beaton. The author and film director Lisa Immordino-Vreeland joins this episode of l’Atelier Balmain to discuss the fascinating life and...
A New French Style, Part 2: Gertrude, Alice and Pierre
L'Atelier Balmain - March 29, 2021 15:23 - 57 minutesMaira Kalman, the celebrated author, illustrator and designer joins the l’Atelier Balmain podcast for episode four. Kalman who oversaw 2020’s critically praised and colorful re-edition of Gertrude Stein’s best-selling “Autobiography of Alice B Toklas,” discusses the incredible literary an...
1.4: A New French Style, Part 2: Gertrude, Alice and Pierre
L'Atelier Balmain - March 29, 2021 15:23 - 57 minutesMaira Kalman, the celebrated author, illustrator and designer joins the l’Atelier Balmain podcast for episode four. Kalman who oversaw 2020’s critically praised and colorful re-edition of Gertrude Stein’s best-selling “Autobiography of Alice B Toklas,” discusses the incredible literary and arti...
A Star Is Born - Part One
L'Atelier Balmain - January 26, 2021 19:29 - 49 minutes75 years ago, Pierre Balmain presented the very first collection of his newly established eponymous house—and that brief fashion moment, which highlighted just a few dozen designs, helped to introduce a new, golden age of post-war Parisian couture, while also establishing the firm foundations th...
1.3: A New French Style, Part 1: The Miracle
L'Atelier Balmain - January 26, 2021 19:29 - 49 minutesPierre Balmain’s life changed radically on October 12th, 1945. That was the date that the young designer chose to schedule his house’s first couture presentation to the public, held inside the salon of his new headquarters at 44, rue de François Premier, in the center of Paris’ famed “Golden Tri...
A New French Style (Part 1/4)
L'Atelier Balmain - January 26, 2021 19:29 - 49 minutes75 years ago, Pierre Balmain presented the very first collection of his newly established eponymous house—and that brief fashion moment, which highlighted just a few dozen designs, helped to introduce a new, golden age of post-war Parisian couture, while also establishing the firm foundations th...
A New French Style, Part 1: The Miracle
L'Atelier Balmain - January 26, 2021 19:29 - 49 minutes75 years ago, Pierre Balmain presented the very first collection of his newly established eponymous house—and that brief fashion moment, which highlighted just a few dozen designs, helped to introduce a new, golden age of post-war Parisian couture, while also establishing the firm foundations th...
1.2: A Singular Heritage
L'Atelier Balmain - December 20, 2020 08:28 - 40 minutesFrom a musical péniche gliding through the center of Paris to under-the-star runways dedicated to virtual show attendees, Olivier Rousteing has overseen a series of innovative solutions, in order to present his vision of Balmain’s distinctive optimism and heritage during 2020’s long months of lo...
A Singular Heritage
L'Atelier Balmain - December 20, 2020 08:28 - 40 minutesFrom a musical péniche gliding through the center of Paris to under-the-star runways dedicated to virtual show attendees, Olivier Rousteing has overseen a series of innovative solutions, in order to present his vision of Balmain’s distinctive optimism and heritage during 2020’s long months of lo...
Balmain’s Exceptional Heritage
L'Atelier Balmain - December 20, 2020 08:28 - 40 minutesFrom a musical péniche gliding through the center of Paris to under-the-star runways dedicated to virtual show attendees, Olivier Rousteing has overseen a series of innovative solutions, in order to present his vision of Balmain’s distinctive optimism and heritage during 2020’s long months of lo...
How Ya Going To Keep ‘Em Down On The Farm (After They’ve Seen Paree?)
L'Atelier Balmain - December 04, 2020 17:00 - 32 minutesFor our first L’Atelier Balmain episode, we explore the pre-Balmain histories of two of the 75-year-old house’s best-known designers: the founder Pierre Balmain and the current Creative Director, Olivier Rousteing. Although both men were originally “provincials,” as they moved forward on their d...
1.1: How Ya Going To Keep ‘Em Down On The Farm (After They’ve Seen Paree?)
L'Atelier Balmain - December 04, 2020 17:00 - 32 minutesThe 1919 vaudeville hit, “How Ya Gonna To Keep ‘Em Down On The Farm (After They’ve Seen Paree?)” may be simple, silly, and with a title that is way too long—but at its core, it holds one enduring truth: the lure of Paris is just sometimes too strong to be resisted. For this premiere episode of l...
Episode 1 : How Ya Going To Keep ‘Em Down On The Farm (After They’ve Seen Paree?)
L'Atelier Balmain - December 04, 2020 17:00 - 32 minutesFor our first L’Atelier Balmain episode, we explore the pre-Balmain histories of two of the 75-year-old house’s best-known designers: the founder Pierre Balmain and the current Creative Director, Olivier Rousteing. Although both men were originally “provincials,” as they moved forward on their d...
Balmain L'Atelier
L'Atelier Balmain - October 28, 2020 11:21 - 32 minutesL’Atelier Balmain Episode 01: How You Gonna Keep Them Down On The Farm…? For our first L’Atelier Balmain episode, we explore the pre-Balmain histories of two of the 75-year-old house’s best-known designers: the founder Pierre Balmain and the current Creative Director, Olivier Rousteing. Alth...
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