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Heritage wise no other Couturier than Haider Ackermann deserved to be at the helm of BALENCIAGA. Nothing against Alexander Wang, whom we applaude his appointment since François-Henri Pinault (Chairman and CEO) opted for his Asian and American markets appeal. It’s a trade off: créativité or commercial.

Cristóbal Balenciaga made his choice when he closed his house in 1968 at the age of 74 after working in Paris for 30 years. He decided to retire and closed his fashion houses in Paris, Barcelona and Madrid, one after the other because Haute Couture lost its grandeur. Yet we could not argue that fashion was going into a new phase which is also plausible. Monsieur Balenciaga taught fashion design classes, inspiring other designers such as Oscar de la Renta, André Courrèges, Emanuel Ungaro, Mila Schön and Hubert de Givenchy.

He would have approved of Haider Ackermann’s.

This is very similar to some of the ideas we have been throwing around:

The classroom can be fundamentally improved. Teachers currently spend valuable class time lecturing information to their students. We want to end the lecture and give teachers more time in class to actually engage with their students, and not simply address them.