Friday, 30 September 2011

PIERRE BALMAIN : A new diffusion line of BALMAIN

PIERRE BALMAIN is the new diffusion line of BALMAIN.  However, the design & manufacturing has nothing much to do with BALMAIN, it is licensed to a Italian company who creates the collection from a scratch, on their own, and they just launched a promo-video.


Because it's a short promo-video, I cannot make a clear judgment, but I must say I am bit disappointed that the clothes featured on the video looks almost identical to the previous BALMAIN stuff.  Most obvious one was the double slanted zipper, biker style pants.  I don't know, maybe this is a good news for those who love BALMAIN but can't afford it, but I thought it would lead BALMAIN to lose its loyal & core customers.  Not many people can afford to spent £800-£1200 on a pair of jeans but people who do, do that because not many brands offer that kind of exclusive(ridiculous) price tag on a pair of jeans and a t-shirt, besides the good design factor.  Those customers who buy the original BALMAIN don't want to see people full of wearing same or similar looking clothes that only costs 1/5 of what they HAD to pay for theirs.  And the worst part is that these clothes that only cost 1/5 of the original, even have the legit brand labels too, one that sounds even more authentic rather than a diffusion line : PIERRE BALMAIN, the full name of the founder of BALMAIN!



I think I am just pissed off because Decarnin left BALMAIN, the new collection for 2012 S/S doesn't look good at all, and I bought a pair of jeans, which will be knocked off by PIERRE BALMAIN in the near future.



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