Pricing summary
Balmain Black cotton t-shirt is currently $216 at Yoox, down from a verified MSRP of $567 — a $351 discount or 62% off. This is the lowest price Archive Luxury has recorded across all 33 monitored retailers since we began tracking this item. The current sale price reflects a real markdown against a real historical comparison price, not an inflated original. Prices are re-verified every 30 minutes; the price history chart on this page shows the full tracked timeline.
Balmain pricing context
Balmain runs through standard contemporary-luxury markdown cycles at authorized retailers — typically two to three sale windows per year, with discounts in the 25–40% range on previous-season inventory. The brand's resale retention varies by silhouette and silhouette age; classic colors and core silhouettes hold value materially better than seasonal trend pieces. Verify the displayed comparison price against Balmain's own current retail before assuming the markdown math is honest.
What to know about this category
Luxury ready-to-wear has the steepest depreciation curve in the category — most pieces lose 60–80% of retail within a year on resale platforms. The exceptions: cashmere knits, silk basics, classic outerwear from disciplined houses (The Row, Khaite, Max Mara, Loro Piana). Cost-per-wear math separates the items that compound from the ones that do not.
How we verified this deal
This deal passed Archive Luxury's three-gate verification pipeline before publishing. Gate 1 confirmed Yoox as an authorized retailer with a direct Balmain relationship — no grey-market sellers, no resale platforms, no parallel imports without explicit landed-price disclosure. Gate 2 validated the 62% discount against historical price data: the original price comes from a named source field on the retailer's product feed (JSON-LD highPrice, compare_at_price, or equivalent), not from an estimated or fabricated comparison. Gate 3 classified the deal by category, urgency, and editorial fit. Items that fail any gate never reach this page; that's why the published deal count is smaller than what the underlying sources advertise.
Read the full three-gate methodology or our guide on how inflated comparison prices work.
Before you click through
Two checks before clicking through. First, confirm the silhouette and color are still in stock at Yoox — sale inventory moves fast, and our price re-verification runs every 30 minutes but stock can change between checks. Second, review the retailer's return policy if the fit, color, or material differs from what's described — luxury sale items often have shorter return windows than full-price merchandise. Authorized-retailer purchases like this one carry the brand's standard manufacturer warranty and qualify for brand-authorized repairs, which is a meaningful difference from grey-market or resale alternatives.
