"That statement really says it all for me," explains Rousteing. "It is, of course, a key theme of The Lion King. It also explains my design process at Balmain, where I constantly reference the house's extraordinary history. But, more personally, it reflects my own long search for answers about my origin. And that's why returning to Africa to work on this film was such an incredibly moving experience for me. It released that same wave of emotions that I experienced when I first viewed The Lion King, all those many years ago — for, as you can imagine, watching that solitary lion cub construct his own unique and chosen family, while searching for truth about his heritage, hit me, an adopted child, particularly hard."