Cancelled Supreme x Balenciaga Collection Lookbook Images Surface

After teasing one of the biggest high-low fashion partnerships since Supreme and Louis Vuitton, a planned collaboration between the New York skate company and high end provocateurs Balenciaga appears to have since been cancelled, with alleged images of the collection surfacing online.

Originally teased with a subtle flash of a familiar looking red box logo tee down Balenciaga's Spring 2023 Ready-to-Wear runway, a full collaborative collection was originally rumoured to release as part of the Supreme Spring Summer 2023 season.

After an extremely turbulent few months for Balenciaga - and with no sign of an upcoming release - the collection is believed to have been cancelled.

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A set of images purporting to be the lookbook for the doomed collection has now surfaced featuring many of the design signatures of each brand - box logo caps and hoodies à la Supreme and distressed trash bag-like sacks, complete with oversized jackets and jeans.

The previous high fashion 2017 team up between hallowed French luxury brand Louis Vuitton and the New York streetwear brand - engineered by then Men's Artistic Director for Louis Vuitton, Kim Jones - caused an absolute frenzy among fashion fans at the time.

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The partnership arguably inspired a wave of high-low partnerships in the years since: Dior x Stussy, Gucci x The North Face, sacai x Nike, Prada x Adidas to name but a few.

Supreme have since launched collections with several established high end fashion designers and brands including Burberry, Yohji Yamamoto, Comme des Garçons, Emilio Pucci, Jean Paul Gaultier and more.

While a degree of collab fatigue may have begun to set in for consumers amid dwindling resell values and a continuing cost of living squeeze, unwieldy queues still formed outside Burberry and Supreme stores in 2022 in anticipation of the release of the co-branded apparel, making the potency of their counter cultural allure and enduring "cool" factor self evident with each new sold out collection.

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We can only wait to see which fashion partner will be next on the horizon.