Demna Gvasalia, the 34-year-old Georgian designer and founder of the brand Vetements has been appointed artistic director of Balenciaga.
Gvasalia will have creative responsibility for the brand’s collections and the image of the house. He is expected to stage his first show for the brand in March 2016 during Paris Fashion Week. Alongside his new role at Balenciaga, Demna Gvasalia will continue to lead the design collective at Vetements.
Demna Gvasalia is a graduate from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Antwerp and he launched his first collection at Tokyo Fashion Week in 2007. He also worked behind the scenes at Margiela for eight years as well as at Louis Vuitton, where he took up the role of senior designer of women’s ready-to-wear collections for a short period before launching Vetements in 2014. His brand Vetements was named a finalist for the LVMH Young Fashion Designers Prize this year.
