Antonin Tron is the new creative director of Balmain , effective this month, following the departure of Olivier Rousteing , whose impressive 14-year tenure saw the French house’s revenues grow tenfold. The 41-year-old Tron is the designer behind the decade-old Paris brand Atlein, a label renowned for its artisanal draping and manipulation of jersey – “as good as Alaiïa’s,” Hamish Bowles said while reporting Vogue ’s September 2016 profile of the designer – as well as its thoughtful and respectful take on femininity (variously fuelled by feminist, gender and environmental theorists, writers and artists). Tron will show his debut collection for Balmain for autumn/winter 2026 in March of next year. Read More Olivier Rousteing Exits Balmain By Luke Leitch

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