WOMEN'S PRE SPRING 2027

With Balmain’s Women’s Pre-Spring 2027 collection, Antonin Tron builds on his debut Fall-Winter 2026 collection for the house. That first collection of his exalted the Balmain-isms of maison founder Pierre Balmain’s invention since he launched the house in 1945: extreme draping, animal prints, and embellishment and decoration whose origins lie in haute couture, which Antonin Tron melded with his own love of the darkly hyper-glamorous heroines (and anti-heroines) of movies of the 1940s and 1980s. For his very first resort collection, Antonin Tron has also alighted on another obsession of his (and indeed that of Pierre Balmain decades earlier): the luminescent glamour of California, home to Hollywood (Kathleen Turner as femme fatale Matty Walker in the 1981 movie Body Heat was on Antonin Tron’s mind) as well as his fascination with California’s free-living, and free-thinking, way of being and dressing.