Let's not pretend here that any of us really give a fuck about this week's approaching Will's n' Kate nuptials. Aside from the extra day to drink ourselves into an earlier drunken weekend stupor, the impending ceremony and all its wearisome press-overkill has us excited as a Primark clearance sale at opening time. Which is why you'll note a palpable absence of tedious dress speculation, what-Kate's-shopping-for-now and other frothy-yet-tenuously-linked-wedding stories at TRR.

Anyway. We begin this ultra-short week with the hot news that Balmain are this close -> <- to announcing Christophe Decarnin's successor and it's likely to be a little known Olivier Rousteing. Before you get your panties in a bunch and "whooo?" on us, he is to Decarnin who Sarah Burton is to McQueen, so fret-ye-not that our oh-so-beloved Balmain silhouettes will be vanishing. Moreover, getting a fresh remix by the chief designer's right-hand-man.

Prior to Balmain, the French-born Rousteing spent six years at Roberto Cavalli and is a "young and promising creative dynamo" according to sources. He's that under-the-radar we couldn't find any piccies of him, so you'll just have to make do with the shortly vacating Decarnin and highlights of Balamin's A/W'11 collection.

Posted on April 26, 2011 at 3:49:07 by The Real Runway