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I have a love/hate relationship with Balmain. On the one hand, there’s always some great fashion involved, but then again the display of excess that comes with it annoys me. It sometimes feels to me that Balmain just creates clothes to create expensive apparel. This collection didn’t really create any of that conflict for me. This was a stripped down Bailman, well maybe a more sensible Balmain is a better term. This collection still has the glitz and glamour but a kind that is more suited for this economy. The clothes are still not cheap but it’s in bad taste to flaunt that these days.