Along the Spring/Summer Collection 2025 in Paris Fashion Week but fashion designer Guram GVASALIA (Vetements brand GDST) continues to cause controversy when being accused of copying many ideas from Balenciaga.
Specifically, Vetements brought some momentsfashionQuite impressive in his Spring/Summer Collection 2025 with the appearance of Travis Scott opening the show, Gigi Hadid wore skirts made from tape, Carmen Kass strided with the pregnant belly, a series of celebrities made Caeso.And finally, the bride Anok Yai fleeing away from the ceremony.
Some notable moments at Vetements Spring/Summer 2025 show.
Vetements "proactively" coincide with the idea to kick Balenciaga?
But it seems that Guram GVasalia is trying to attract attention when copying (or slanting) quite a lot of ideas from her biological brother - Demna GVasalia (Balenciaga).Fashion followers quickly found hidden hints in this collection.Even the Highsnobiety magazine called Guram the desperate "thirst for the center" and criticized the designer to imitate Balenciaga.
Highsnobiety Magazine called Guram the desperate "thirst for the center" and criticized this designer to imitate Balenciaga in the BST review article.
Netizen reaction:
- Sometimes I don't understand that these two brothers like to fight each other or this is just a PR trick.
- Demna doesn't even care about drama from Guram.
- Thinking of ridiculous.
- Lazy.
- Too bored with Vetements.
- Ever since Demna left, Vetements had nothing.
Some comments of netizens.
One of the most obvious evidence is the skirt made from adhesive tape that Gigi Hadid has the logo of DHL delivery unit.It will not be worth mentioning when Demna has launched an outfit from the adhesive tape in the Balenciaga collection/winter 2022.
Kim Kardashian once stormed when the outfit was made from tape to the show Balenciaga Fall/Winter 2022 (photo above) and now, Gigi Hadid wore a tape dress to perform for Vetements (photo below).
In addition, in the spring/summer of 2016, when Demna was still a director of Vetements, he launched a T -shirt with the logo of DHL delivery unit.
In addition, the high -shoulder floral dresses in the Vetements Spring/Summer 2025 ...
... is also said to be quite similar to the floral skirt designs in the Balenciaga collection of autumn/winter 2023.
Some other designs in this collection of Vetements are also considered by many netizens that are quite similar to Balenciaga previous seasons.
Demna and Guram together founded the high -end streetwear brand Vetements in 2014. However, after Demna was appointed as a master at Balenciaga in 2015, and officially broke up his younger brother in 2019, Guram became the one who became a manThe only operating of Vetements.
Demna GVasalia (left) and Guram GVasalia (right) are two siblings but often have conflicts in fashion.
Chicken with the same mother but likes to kick each other
Despite being siblings in the same house, the relationship of Demma and Guram is not warm.Looking at the way they "fight" on each other on the fashion front is like the confrontation of the enemies.In the past, Guram has repeatedly kicked his brother, even, the Vetements Protection Station has been implicitly about Demna copying his design.
He compared a red sequin dress launched by Vetements in June 2023 with a skirt in the Balenciaga Spring/Summer 2024 collection launched in October.As a "brand".
In 2023, when he saw his mother became a opening model for the show Balenciaga Spring/Summer 2024, Guram posted her image and shared her feelings.At the same time, this designer did not forget to be next to his brother: "Proud to see my mother open the show of Balenciaga. It is very sad when I was not invited to witness this moment. Hope God saved my brother's soul's soulI."
A design that was also controversial when there were quite a lot of similarities of Balenciaga Spring/Summer 2020 (left) and Vetements Spring/Summer 2024 (right).
In the past few years, Demna is the face that has received more attention from the media as well as the grave.Therefore, many people believe that the discord between the two GVasalia designers comes from the side of Guram.
In an interview, Guram said:"I think my brother is very talented, but I have a completely different approach. He has had a remarkable achievement for the past 10 years and I think his era is gradually reaching the destination.Now it's my time. "