Balmain has launched the first season of L’Atelier Balmain, the house’s new podcast. Each episode of the 10-part series concentrates on one key aspect of Balmain’s extraordinary history, celebrated signatures and singular DNA. As the podcast travels from Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, (the small Alpine village where Pierre Balmain was born just before the beginning of the First World War), to 44, rue de François Premier, (the iconic Parisian address where the designer’s eponymous couture house was born just as the Second World War was ending), Balmain’s Creative Director Olivier Rousteing joins with fashion’s leading writers and historians to investigate and discuss the key themes, personalities and design moments that set the 75-year-old house apart.

The first season of L’Atelier Balmain begins with a recounting of the province-to-Paris pathways of the house’s first and most recent Creative Directors. 

The L’Atelier Balmain podcast is now available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify Podcasts, Youtube and at balmain.com.