{"id":237171,"date":"2021-12-09T14:43:06","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T13:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highxtar.com\/?p=237171"},"modified":"2021-12-09T15:02:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T14:02:00","slug":"demna-gvasalia-wants-you-to-just-call-him-demna-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highxtar.com\/en\/demna-gvasalia-wants-you-to-just-call-him-demna-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Demna Gvasalia wants you to just call him &#8220;Demna&#8221; now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Georgian fashion designer and current creative director of <a href=\"https:\/\/highxtar.com\/balenciaga-expands-its-digital-frontiers-and-enters-the-metaverse\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Balenciaga<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/highxtar.com\/demna-gvasalia-receives-the-georgian-presidents-medal-of-honour\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Demna Gvasalia<\/a>, seems to have liked the name change that his colleague Kanye West, now &#8220;YE&#8221;, has made. But what was Demna&#8217;s reason for dropping his surname from the media? Read more&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-237134\" src=\"https:\/\/highxtar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/highxtar-demna-gvasalia-now-demna-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highxtar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/highxtar-demna-gvasalia-now-demna-1-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/highxtar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/highxtar-demna-gvasalia-now-demna-1-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highxtar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/highxtar-demna-gvasalia-now-demna-1-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highxtar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/highxtar-demna-gvasalia-now-demna-1-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highxtar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/highxtar-demna-gvasalia-now-demna-1-1-973x649.jpg 973w, https:\/\/highxtar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/highxtar-demna-gvasalia-now-demna-1-1-508x339.jpg 508w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The reason we mentioned above is none other than <strong>to separate his work and public life from his personal life<\/strong>, so from now on the designer wants us to call him only by his first name, &#8220;<strong>Demna&#8221;<\/strong>. However, unlike Ye, Demna has not legally filed her name change and continues to keep her surname.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, this change was announced in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.balenciaga.com\/es-es\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Balenciaga&#8217;s<\/strong><\/a> <strong>Pre-Fall 2022<\/strong> show notes, in which the house stated: <strong>&#8220;From now on, Demna Gvasalia uses only his first name, distinguishing an artist title from a birth name and thus separating creative work from personal life. In all press from now on, he chooses to be referred to simply as Demna&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen <strong>Balenciaga&#8217;s latest autumn collection<\/strong> yet, <strong>click <a href=\"https:\/\/highxtar.com\/balenciaga-returns-to-the-past-with-the-lost-tape\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/strong> to see it.<\/p>\n<p>For more fashion news and current affairs, <strong>visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/highxtar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Balenciaga creative director Demna Gvasalia pulls a Kanye West and drops his surname. 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