Backstage among the #models, these clothes—as I’ve perhaps written before—appear like some magnificent ceremonial attire of a luxurious and infinitely resourced potentate you never knew existed. But #Balmain is about more than bling: It takes balls to wear a sports suit of silver mesh. And you need guts to wear a minidress in cascades of iridescent beading that charts your bodily contours more closely than a medical checkup. Thus the whole #Olivier ‘this is my army’ thing makes sense. He is a boy from Bordeaux who his predecessor at the house, Christophe Decarnin, reportedly recalls was consistently the first worker in and the last out when he moved there after his first job at #RobertoCavalli.