TIFA 2025 Editorial / Fashion

Balenciaga

  • Prize
    Silver in Editorial/Fashion
  • Photographer
    Lauren Greenfield
  • Agency / Studio
    Institute
  • Technical Info
    Canon EOS R5 Mark II
  • Photo Date
    11/05/2025

Recreating the energy of a Balenciaga front row in the early aughts, the campaign offers candid moments just before a fashion show begins. Inspired by Lauren Greenfield’s 2009 photo of Anna Wintour at a New York fashion show, it recalls a time before iPhones dominated. Greenfield recreates the scene with a diverse cast of “it girls”, including Devon Lee Carlson, Paloma Elsesser, and Dixie D’Amelio, updating the front row for a new generation. With irony and insight, the image captures the new arbiters of taste-- mingling, taking selfies, and checking their phones—Le City bags in hand.