Balenciaga is continuing to riff on soccer, né football, culture with its usual flair for the bizarre. Following on its cleats for everyday wear and exorbitantly prices shirts, the Demna Gvasalia-led house has transformed a jersey into one of the weirdest scarves you’ll ever see.
The polyester accessory wraps its striped sleeves around your necks, while the chest of the jersey becomes a hood to drape over your head. Wearing it to a match would almost certainly provoke mockery, and the polyester makeup doesn’t sound warm enough, leaving the question of when exactly you should wear it. The answer, it seems, would be whenever you’re prepared to do the most with a sporty look that says nothing about your knowledge, or lack thereof, of the gentleman’s game played by hooligans.
