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.

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.

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.

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