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Gerard Sabe profile portrait
Ton Heukels profile portrait

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

Balmain

Runway show

Balmain F/W 2017 Men's Runway Show

Date
January 21, 2017
Brand Q Rating
70

Balmain presented Balmain F/W 2017 Men's Runway Show on January 21, 2017. FashionDB records 42 models in the cast, with Gerard Sabe opening and Ton Heukels closing. Olivier Rousteing designed the collection.

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42Unique modelsCanonical profile IDs
10 female / 25 male / 7 unknownRecorded gender mixUnknown values retained
0Current Top 10025 of 42 ranked · Aug 2, 2026
1FashionDB newcomersFirst recorded runway show
30.5Average age13 of 42 with birth data
70Brand Q RatingMethodology
59.9KRecorded stream viewsSnapshot date unavailable

First and final looks

Opener and closer

The complete record

Cast

42 unique models recorded

42 shown

Kit Butler

United Kingdom

#135 FashionDB1 brand show
Brand debut

Oliver Kumbi

United States, Republic of the Congo

#3715 FashionDB1 brand show
Brand debut

Grace Bol

South Sudan, Sudan

#6188 FashionDB2 brand shows

Paul Fontanier

Nationality not recorded

#7250 FashionDB1 brand show
Brand debut

Cast signals

Highlights and analysis

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

Highest-ranked

Most experienced with Balmain

First time at Balmain

25 of 42 models made their first recorded appearance for the brand.

Cast composition

Cast size
42
Current Top 100
0 · 0%
Brand debuts
25
Returning models
17
Average / median age
30.5 / 31
Average women’s height
5′ 11″ · n=9
Average men’s height
6′ 2″ · n=22
Profile-image coverage
31 of 42

Current-rank distribution

301+24 · 57%
Unknown17 · 40%
101–3001 · 2%

42 models in the denominator; unknown values remain visible.

Recorded gender

Male25 · 60%
Female10 · 24%
Unknown7 · 17%

42 models in the denominator; unknown values remain visible.

Top nationalities

Unknown10 · 24%
France5 · 12%
Netherlands3 · 7%
Portugal3 · 7%
Russia3 · 7%
Spain2 · 5%

42 models in the denominator; unknown values remain visible.

Most represented agencies

Unknown11 · 26%
Elite Paris9 · 21%
Elite Copenhagen8 · 19%
Elite Milan8 · 19%
Elite London4 · 10%
I Love Models Management4 · 10%

42 models in the denominator; unknown values remain visible.

Credits

Creative team

People are combined once when multiple roles are recorded.

Film and imagery

Watch the show

Full show

59,864 views as recorded

Stream snapshot date not recorded

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