Balenciaga F/W 06.07 Paris

[JJohnson]

I hope the next collection is great..I do wish there was couture thought

 

[Guessgirl96]

It doesn't beat last season, but I do love it.

 

[JJohnson]

It doesn't beat last season, but I do love it.

Me too! I loved the black pieces dearly! And I want one of those Tshirts

 

[Estella*]

as others i did have this feeling of a 'clean-up' here and i like something about it. on the whole i think i'm not really a fan of ghesquiere's work which is strange because i see he does marvellous things with shapes and while his formal aesthetic appeals to me it still leaves me cold for the most part ...

 

[DARKCHOCOLOViNG]

I love these:

www.balenciaga.com

 

[Foxie-Pooh]

I love some shapes and proportions but the presentation is a little weak...

 

[naked-eye]

OMG I Love it, I think im like the only person who loves plaid, I dunno I think its kinda cool that a designer can use a material that is considered sometimes as "cheap" and make it into a luxury item! I love the embroidered shirts! Its amazing! Im not that into the hats but the elevated shoes are great! I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love it to death.B)

 

[softgrey]

i have to say that mutterlein has made some amazing posts in this thread...

**though 'edition' by balenciaga- which are copies of original balenciaga designs -has been around for several seasons now...
not just since last season...

i may be able to shed some light here....
as the review that brian posted mentioned...
ghesquiere tends to fluctuate between commercial and creative collections...

today's WWD announced that balenciaga is in the BLACK two years ahead of schedule...
so i would venture to guess that ghesquiere has taken this opportunity to have a little fun with this collection...
now that he finally has some breathing room from guccigroup...

way too retro and literal to me...
ridiculous shoes (what's new?)
and i find the hats an annoying ripoff of vintage GIVENCHY...
once again..too literal and too retro...
but fun shapes and silhouettes...
should get loads of editorial coverage...
even if it doesn't sell so well...

...

 

[KhaoticKharma]

These are very Balenciaga shapes and silhouettes, however, somehow... this seems very un-Balenciaga to me. Am I alone?

 

[Caffeine]

Thanks soft! wow they are in black now! Gucci group should send thank you notes to us who has been buying those bags and RTW from them

 

[Deleted member 7575]

**though 'edition' by balenciaga- which are copies of original balenciaga designs -has been around for several seasons now...
not just since last season...

Awwh thanks softie, that means a lot coming from you.


I actually like Balenciaga edition. I love old Balenciaga, I just don't like it being chopped up and rehashed.

 

[softgrey]

no-thank you mutterlein...

it's posts like yours that make tFS interesting...
smart and thoughtful...

 

[Pastry]

even if it doesn't sell so well......

i remember you mentioned his fall 2005 collection wasn't the best of sellers..was that the case at the end of the season?

 

[Bidwell]

Could it be some of these garments are actually Edition?
Certainly nothing flowing about the work now is there, all structure and volume.

 

[Pastry]

review from iht..it's classic menkes

One of fashion's great architects came back from the dead on Tuesday: Cristóbal Balenciaga. The noble Spanish couturier died in 1972, but with a little hip help from Nicolas Ghesquière, the current designer, the Balenciaga vision became as fresh and as modern as anything on the winter 2006 runways.

"It's about references - it is the first time that each look has a link with the history of the house, in total or in part," said Ghesquière. "It is about rethinking Cristóbal."

Front of house, the Gucci CEO, Robert Polet, was congratulating the designer and his team for having brought Balenciaga into the black, while France's new generation actresses-with-attitude sat on the bleachers in Ghesquière's taut, body-hugging jackets worn with drainpipe jeans.

Then poof! Everything Ghesquière did last season - baroque embellishment spilling out of the skinniest of silhouettes - was outmoded. With jackets standing away from the body and brief skirts as round and stand- alone as a felted egg cozy, the models walked out in thick hose and on thick, deep platform shoes that time-traveled the outfit from the early 1960s to cyberspace. On their heads were rounded helmets, straight from the sketchbook of the master's winter 1966 collection.

The Balenciaga show was all about volume - and that is the general story of the season as designers revive egg-shaped silhouettes, usually from the 1980s.

Taking the old and making it new again was Ghesquière's challenge, and he rose to it with rounded coats and sporty jackets where the collar curved upwards to form an arc. That volume was perfectly balanced with his signature skinny pants over which the front row guest Aerin Lauder was sighing with joy.

For all that this is the age of the re- mix, no other designer has so successfully grabbed iconic pieces of a legendary brand and made them over without betraying the founding principles. Ghesquière said that his work on the archives for an upcoming exhibition at the Musée de la Mode had helped him to focus. Yet only a fashion historian could possibly know that a Cy Twombly-style black scribble on a slim white dress was from Balenciaga's own hand in the 1950s. And if Cristóbal was behind the white cabled sweater worn with a miniskirt, it looked more like the work of Balenciaga's protégé André Courrèges from the space-age 1960s.

The effect of the show was not just fashion futurism, but also a lesson in humility from a designer who has ideas of his own but also the confidence and wisdom to let the master speak.

www.iht.com

 

[softgrey]

i remember you mentioned his fall 2005 collection wasn't the best of sellers..was that the case at the end of the season?

that wasnt me...
i never said anything about fall 2005...
if anything..it was probably one of his most commercial collections to date...

*i HAVE said that 'previous' collections did not sell well...
for various reasons...fit problems, etc...
but we are talking about maybe 4 seasons back at this point...

 

[JJohnson]

I loved the heavy volume to this collection and BTW Mutterlein are you in fashion? U seem to know a lot!

 

[zamb]

people can wax poetic all they want. they can explain all they want, but at the end of the day, this is not a great collection.
the fact is tht He delved too deep into the archives,
this is not Baleciaga by Nicolas Ghesquiere
it is Cristobal balenciaga Copied by Nicolas Ghesquiere
I love nicolas I have been a follower of his work but i think this whole exhibition thing and the creation of a Balenciaga museum ( Overseen by Hubert de Givenchy) has gotten to him
realizing that all of these things are going to create a lot of buzz around the brand he seems to want to cash in on all of this activity.......
i am an avid student of Cristobal Balenciaga and from my perspective there would have been better ways of interpreting the Archives than so literally
after all........ i dont know five women who dress anywhere near this in todays society

 

[JJohnson]

I do

 

[Pastry]

that wasnt me...
i never said anything about fall 2005...
if anything..it was probably one of his most commercial collections to date...

*i HAVE said that 'previous' collections did not sell well...
for various reasons...fit problems, etc...
but we are talking about maybe 4 seasons back at this point...

we were talking about the ysl colelction and how you couldn't fit the coats, you said ysl was flying out the door, but balenciaga wasn' so good..but anways...it was commercial without a doubt, but it's intersting if it relfects in the numbers...