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Anok Yai profile portrait
Anok Yai profile portrait

Profile portraits of the recorded opener and closer; not runway-look photography.

Balenciaga

Runway show

Balenciaga Haute Couture Fall 2026 Runway Show

Date
July 8, 2026
City
Paris
Brand Q Rating
77
Casting director
Alejandra Perez

Balenciaga presented Balenciaga Haute Couture Fall 2026 Runway Show in Paris on July 8, 2026. FashionDB records 51 models in the cast, with Anok Yai opening and Anok Yai closing. Alejandra Perez directed the casting and Pierpaolo Piccioli designed the collection.

71,197 views as recorded · snapshot date unavailable

51Unique modelsCanonical profile IDs
50 female / 1 transgenderRecorded gender mixUnknown values retained
26Current Top 10051 of 51 ranked · Aug 2, 2026
1FashionDB newcomersFirst recorded runway show
28.7Average age27 of 51 with birth data
77Brand Q RatingMethodology
71.2KRecorded stream viewsSnapshot date unavailable

First and final looks

Opener and closer

Anok Yai profile portraitOpened & closed

Anok Yai

United States, South Sudan

FashionDB
#18
Balenciaga
1 recorded show
First recorded Balenciaga showNo Smoking

The complete record

Cast

51 unique models recorded

51 shown

Agel Akol

Canada, South Sudan

#6 FashionDB9 brand shows

Anok Yai

United States, South Sudan

#18 FashionDB1 brand show
Brand debut

Noor Khan

Sweden, Pakistan

#44 FashionDB3 brand shows

Liu Wen

China

#45 FashionDB9 brand shows

Yar Aguer

South Sudan

#47 FashionDB3 brand shows

He Cong

China

#51 FashionDB2 brand shows

Cast signals

Highlights and analysis

Rank, profile, and relationship data from one computed snapshot.

Highest-ranked

Most experienced with Balenciaga

First time at Balenciaga

26 of 51 models are currently in FashionDB’s Top 100.

21 of 51 models made their first recorded appearance for the brand.

Cast composition

Cast size
51
Current Top 100
26 · 51%
Brand debuts
21
Returning models
30
Average / median age
28.7 / 27
Average women’s height
5′ 11″ · n=50
Average men’s height
· n=0
Profile-image coverage
51 of 51

Current-rank distribution

Top 5020 · 39%
101–30016 · 31%
301+9 · 18%
51–1006 · 12%

51 models in the denominator; unknown values remain visible.

Recorded gender

Female50 · 98%
Transgender1 · 2%

51 models in the denominator; unknown values remain visible.

Top nationalities

South Sudan9 · 18%
United States9 · 18%
China7 · 14%
United Kingdom5 · 10%
Germany4 · 8%
Belgium3 · 6%

51 models in the denominator; unknown values remain visible.

Most represented agencies

Elite Paris7 · 14%
Next New York7 · 14%
Elite Milan6 · 12%
MIKAs6 · 12%
Next London6 · 12%
Next Milan6 · 12%

51 models in the denominator; unknown values remain visible.

Previous comparable show

Balenciaga F/W 26

Mar 7, 2026 · City unavailable

Cast size
51 now · 67 previous
Current Top 100
26 now · 20 previous
Newcomers
1 now · 1 previous

Cast overlap requires a comparable-show identity set and is not available in this source response.

Credits

Creative team

People are combined once when multiple roles are recorded.

Film and imagery

Watch the show

Full show

71,197 views as recorded

Stream snapshot date not recorded

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