Balmain’s Olivier Rousteing steps down, ending an era of star-powered style


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Olivier Rousteing acknowledges the audience at the end of the Balmain show as part of the Spring/Summer 2024 Paris Fashion Week. Photo: AFP

Designer Olivier Rousteing is stepping down as creative director of the Balmain fashion house after 14 hugely visible years in which he fused the rigour of Parisian tailoring with a digital-age sense of celebrity, he announced Wednesday (Nov 5).

"Today marks the end of my Balmain era,” Rousteing, 40, wrote on Instagram.

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