Elliot Page poses on the runway during the Balenciaga Spring/Summer 2022 show as part of Paris Fashion Week. (Getty/ Richard Bord)
Elliot Page walked the Balenciaga red carpet-runway at Paris Fashion Week, and the internet is losing its mind over his platform goth Crocs.
On Saturday (2 October), the Spanish fashion house held its Spring 2022 show, a red carpet film premiere where the celebrities themselves were the models, and paparazzi frantically took photos from the sidelines.
Bizarrely, the “premiere” was for the first screening of a Balenciaga-themed episode of The Simpsons.
The celebrity models included Formula One racing driver Lewis Hamilton and French actor Isabelle Huppert, but the star of the show was Elliot Page, who appeared in a baggy black suit and platform goth Crocs.
Elliot Page in Balenciaga Crocs left the internet ‘not OK’
One Twitter user wrote: “HE IS IN BALENCIAGA PLATFORM CROCS.
“I hope they know how much I love and support this fashion decision, Elliot Page, I love you.”
“Elliot Page is Balenciaga’s Look 50 model,” said fashion journalist Faran Krentcil. “Yes, those are Balenciaga platform crocs. No, I am not okay.”
i hope they know how much i love and support this fashion decision elliot page i love you
— ً (@DYLANHOVEMEYER) October 3, 2021
Elliot Page is Balenciaga’s Look 50 model. Yes, those are Balenciaga platform crocs. No, I am not okay. ❤️💀 pic.twitter.com/RpTowyprWH
— Faran Krentcil (@FaranKrentcil) October 2, 2021
sorry but i absolutely require elliot page’s sick-as-FUCK goth platform crocs pic.twitter.com/cSZ8VcOiIf
— patheticgirl43 (@depeachymode) October 4, 2021
Balenciaga crocs are back + elliot page is everything 💓 https://t.co/OtxGUVutyx
— Venus as a boy (@DiabloAlthani) October 3, 2021
Elliot Page wearing Balenciaga Crocs.
I’m not okay pic.twitter.com/ME46BcIIq2
— 𝔈𝔩 𝔭𝔞𝔱𝔬 𝔠𝔬𝔫 𝔟𝔬𝔱𝔞𝔰 (@G0thCrocs) October 3, 2021
Elliot Page has made fashion headlines for the second time in less than a month
Elliot Page is on track to become a fashion icon. Just last month, he attended the Met Gala in an incredible outfit that honoured Oscar Wilde.
It was his first red carpet appearance since he came out as trans in December 2020, and Page again wore Balenciaga.
@TheElliotPage with an Oscar Wilde homage 💚 #MetGala2021 pic.twitter.com/HufGdblM4X
— Quin Cunningham (@rococokaren) September 13, 2021
At the Met Gala, he wore sleek black suit with a green rose on the lapel, an apparent homage to a famous picture of Oscar Wilde, the gay playwright who was convicted of “gross indecency” by an English court over his relationship with another man, wearing a green carnation.
During Wilde’s lifetime, the green carnation became a symbol for queer men after the acclaimed writer asked his friends to wear it to the opening night of one of his shows.