Anne Hathaway Ushers in the Piccioli Era at Balenciaga’s Paris debut

‘The heartbeat is the rhythm we share, the pulse that reminds us we are human,” he wrote in a letter released just prior to the show, which took place yesterday evening. ‘For every heartbeat there is a name, a moment, a gesture. This collection comes from that place of love and connection.

It is as much mine as it is of those who lived it with me-in every way.

Perhaps with a different pulse, but always with the same soul.’ Anne Hathaway: The Campaign’s New Face Anne Hathaway, a longtime muse for both Piccioli and the global style set, took center stage, embodying the campaign’s balance of romance and defiant modernity.

Debuting in a dramatic, sculptural black dress (an homage to Cristóbal Balenciaga’s 1957 “sack” silhouette), Hathaway anchored a visual story that is equal parts couture heritage and contemporary power-play…