balenciaga winter 22 Creative director, Demna Gvasalia was a child when he and his family fled the war in Georgia. The collection was displayed within a circular arena filled with snow and wind. In his show notes, Demna writes, “The war in Ukraine has triggered the pain of a past trauma I have carried in me since 1993, when the same thing happened in my home country and I became a forever refugee. Forever, because that’s something that stays in you. The fear, the desperation, the realization that no one wants you.”