RUNWAY: Balmain FW19

Olivier Rousteing's latest outing for Balmain came in monochrome with most of the looks coming in only black or white...or to change to it up: black and white. The collection was actually quite multi-faceted. First, many of the looks could be worn by either men or women, it offered dressy options and more hard-edged ones, and it was exceedingly intricate, as is normally the case with Rousteing's Balmain offerings. The beginning of the collection, however, looked like the young French designer was applying for the top job at Chanel, with fringey tweeds and chunky houndstooth while the latter half offered BSDM-harnessed models with iPhones that recorded one's viewpoint. The leather trenches, jackets and bombers in the final few looks were quite exemplary.