DEMNA’S New DAWN
Demna is smiling. It’s early December, and the 42-year-old artistic director of Balenciaga is in Los Angeles on the day before the house’s Pre-Fall 2024 presentation, the location of which—on a beatific street in L.A.’s glitzy Hancock Park neighborhood, with a dead-center horizon view of the Hollywood Sign—will remain a fiercely guarded secret right up until showtime. In advance of my interview with the mononymous designer, who dropped his surname a few years ago, I’d decided to stop by Erewhon—the internet-famous celebrity-haunt L.A. grocery store known for its immaculate assortment of organic produce and prepared foods, Sea Moss Gel wellness elixirs, and a Hailey Bieber–formulated smoothie. I went, I saw, and I consumed one of Bieber’s Strawberry Glaze Skin beverages (which, it turns out, has more calories than a large Starbucks…