Balmain showed at the Grand in Paris and was easy to explain. Christophe Decarnin did punk — and not even an improvised version of the ’70s look, but a dead-straight one, with safety pins piercing leather and frayed denim, and slashed T-shirts looking laundered and dirty as the Sex Pistols played.- NY TIMES.com

Parisian designer Christophe Decarnin for Balmain:  Fall-Winter 2010-2011 collection – Paris, 3/4/2010. Decarnin drinks in the applause at the end of his Fall-Winter 2010-2011 Presentation.