ANOHNI Covers Selena For Balenciaga
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At Paris Fashion Week on Wednesday, Balenciaga presented its 55th Couture Collection, the first designed by Pierpaolo Piccioli, accompanied by a newly recorded, orchestrally backed soundtrack performed by ANOHNI. The performance opened with ANOHNI's cover of "I Could Fall In Love," the lead single from Tejano pop star Selena's posthumous album Dreaming Of You, marking a notable pairing of the acclaimed singer with a high-profile fashion moment.
From the Selena cover, the soundtrack segued into "Perfect Day" by ANOHNI's late collaborator Lou Reed, a song she has performed previously, before moving through three of her own compositions: "Miracle Now," "My Lord My Love" and "Hope There's Someone." As the piece progressed, the songs began mixing and layering together, and an archived video of the performance is available to view.
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ANOHNI is a British-born, US-based singer known for haunting, emotionally raw vocals, first with the group Antony and the Johnsons and later as a solo artist, and for collaborations with artists including Lou Reed. Balenciaga is a major French luxury fashion house, and Pierpaolo Piccioli is a well-known Italian designer who recently took over as its creative director after a long career at Valentino. Paris Fashion Week is one of the industry's key seasonal events, where labels unveil new collections, often with elaborate staging and music.
Selena was a hugely popular Tejano singer often called the "Queen of Tejano Music," who built a major following blending Mexican-American and pop styles before she was murdered in 1995 at the age of 23. Her album Dreaming Of You was released after her death and became a landmark record, introducing her to a wider English-language audience and cementing her lasting cultural influence, particularly among Latino communities in the US.
The pairing of ANOHNI's voice with a Selena song at a Balenciaga show matters because it brings together several distinct worlds, avant-garde music, high fashion and Latino pop heritage, in one high-profile setting, and marks a notable moment for Piccioli's opening collection at the house.
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