Beyonce poses in the futuristic Balmain collection she co-designed with Olivier Rousteing

Beyonce has become a fashion designer.

The 41-year-old Single Ladies singer has co-designed a new collection with fashion genius Olivier Rousteing for Balmain, was shared by Vogue France on Friday.

The fashion collection is titled Renaissance Couture and it has some very striking looks.

On the cover, the wife of rapper Jay-Z is seen wearing a skintight, crystal-encrusted dress that had an attached headpiece, plus a bold hat.

Beyonce announced the new fashion co-collaboration on Instagram, captioning it: ‘Thank you @olivier-rousteing and @balmain for bringing RENAISSANCE to life in couture.

‘Designing with you was liberating, thank you for allowing me to celebrate the human form, take artistic risks, push boundaries and express myself freely.

“To the @voguefrance team, thank you for trusting in our vision and sharing it with the world.”

It is a ‘one of a kind’ fashion collection.

The collection includes 17 looks, each inspired by a certain song or lyric from the mega-pop star’s latest album, Renaissance.

Two of the looks were announced to have already debuted at the Brit and Grammy Awards this year, with more to be revealed in the future.

Fashion designer Rousteing told Vogue that he contacted Beyoncé and her stylist Marni Senofonte in August and told them: “Honestly, I want to create a couture collection with you.”

He added: ‘My hope was that she was willing to do something even beyond the work we’ve done together before, she wanted us to be co-designers.

“I can’t help but be excited by the historical aspects of this collaboration. This appears to be the first time a black woman has overseen a historic Parisian house’s haute couture offering.

“And those designs were created in collaboration with the first black man to oversee all the collections of a historic Parisian house.

‘Hopefully those first two help inspire many others.

“Thank you Beyonce for creating the infectious and joyous music that started this journey, and for partnering with me to make sure we designed the collection that perfectly reflected the power of those compositions.”

Rousteing said the collection took them five months, with “hundreds of WhatsApps, Zooms and emails” to edit the sketches, before spending 10 days with Beyonce and Senofonte in Los Angeles in January for “final touches, additions, adaptations, shots.” . and editions’.

Announcing the post on social media, Beyonce shared a dozen looks, including the Break My Soul outfit after her award-winning song.

It features a draped hooded shiny black velvet dress with a black chrome electroplated 3D printed bustier creating the image of a bare torso.

Meanwhile, the I’m That Girl look features a hammered metal sculpture by artist Elie Hirsch with matching spiked bracelets atop a black nappa lambskin sarong skirt and gloves.

Rousteing told Vogue: “Beyonce is a strong woman of substance and with these lyrics and this message, choosing which path to take for this first design was very easy.”

Another striking look titled Thique features an illusion bustier with hammered brass and crystal pendant worn over a black velvet bodysuit with black velvet turban and tassel chandelier earrings.

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