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Christophe Decarnin Is Out at Balmain

Photo: FRANCOIS GUILLOT/2010 AFP

Christophe Decarnin is no longer the head designer at Balmain, the label announced in a press release early this morning. Decarnin was absent from the label’s fall 2011 show and may not have been around at all as early as the beginning of this year, Cathy Horyn reports in the Times. Sources also say he was barely in communication with the label’s CEO.

Horyn thinks that Decarnin — who was rumored to be in a mental hospital at the time of the Balmain show — “hit some kind of personal impasse and lost control of the label.”

Decarnin Leaves Balmain; Successor in Wings [On the Runway/NYT]

Christophe Decarnin Is Out at Balmain