Kanye West’s Met Gala Jacket Took Longer To Make Than Kim’s Dress
If Balmain creative director Olivier Rousteing is tired from his past few nonstop days in New York City, he’s not showing it. After dressing Kanye West and most of House Kardashian for Monday night’s Met Gala, the designer looked every bit his young and energetic 30-year-old self during a tour of his brand’s new flagship store in the Big Apple today. Located in SoHo, the downtown shop is the first U.S. boutique for the brand’s very uptown-priced clothing. And while most stores keep guys’ clothes in the back, that’s not the case here. Menswear greets you as soon as you walk into the space at 100 Wooster Street, and that’s because Rousteing works just as hard–and in some cases, harder—on his men’s clothes as he does on the women’s pieces he’s become famous for. Read more at GQ.
