Balenciaga F/W 2008.09 Paris

[JuiceMajor]

Suzy's review is spot on!!

 

[KKnardi]

could somebody post some HQ-pictures from the collection?

 

[Multitudes]

^please don't, I don't think my eyes can take anymore of this horror of a show!

Can he get any worse, well I just have to wait for his ss ...
Talking about copying, it might be a good idea for him,
then we might get some beautiful and interesting design for a change!
I would be offended by this as Balenciaga buyer ...

Another thing, please let me know when Menkes write something worthwhile
to read, I'm still waiting for that day to come, I don't think she knows
what critical and analytical writing is! ...

 

[JuiceMajor]

^ Speaking of worthwhile, I think your is pretty much down on the bottom!! No offence.

On a more happy note, HQ's please!

 

[Bidwell]

Multitude, I think you write brilliantly. You should apply for Suzy's job!

 

[FogUponLA]

Multitude, I think you write brilliantly. You should apply for Suzy's job!

HAHAHA

Karma!

 

[dior_couture1245]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=M28U_d7vsCU

 

[Scott]

okay it's official....suzy menkes is smoking something. what god-awful reviewing she is doing these days. after that dior debacle where she basically let in to galliano and that crap he was doing then,got in trouble and was made to apologise,she's never been the same,outspoken,honest writer she was before that. that's sad.

and that's coming from offensive and silly me.

and i still think that those shapes in those jackets came all too coincidentally when ames has been experimenting with that shape quite obviously the last two seasons. whether you believe it or not,or the idea of it is silly,it's still fishy to me.

 

[Deleted member 7575]

^please don't, I don't think my eyes can take anymore of this horror of a show!

Can he get any worse, well I just have to wait for his ss ...
Talking about copying, it might be a good idea for him,
then we might get some beautiful and interesting design for a change!
I would be offended by this as Balenciaga buyer ...

Another thing, please let me know when Menkes write something worthwhile
to read, I'm still waiting for that day to come, I don't think she knows
what critical and analytical writing is! ...

Curious, what about it did you not like?

 

[Mia S-M]

This last pictures are so nice , but i've seen better from balenciaga

 

[Multitudes]

Multitude, I think you write brilliantly. You should apply for Suzy's job!

Well thank you Bidwell,
but naahh, I've never been good at kissing a**! ...

^ Speaking of worthwhile, I think your is pretty much down on the bottom!! No offence.

No offense taken!

Curious, what about it did you not like?

A kind karma giver pointed out something quite poignant,
she hoped that It was the lack of woman-ness that offended me to
and I think that tells it very well, the interruption of femininity as
movement(slowness and speed), the lack of movability, the stiffness
and rigidness, it doesn't move at all, it cuts of any extension or expression of the body,
there is no breath or life in the garments ...

One must really dislike ones body to make it live in clothes like this!

 

[Spike413]

Isn't Balenciaga, the house and founder, known for stiff, rigid shapes that create a new shape rather than just show what's underneath?

I mean, that's kind of a strange reason to dislike a Balenciaga collection since that's what Balenciaga is all about.

 

[FogUponLA]

Isn't Balenciaga, the house and founder, known for stiff, rigid shapes that create a new shape rather than just show what's underneath?

I mean, that's kind of a strange reason to dislike a Balenciaga collection since that's what Balenciaga is all about.

Exactly!

 

[Multitudes]

Isn't Balenciaga, the house and founder, known for stiff, rigid shapes that create a new shape rather than just show what's underneath?

I mean, that's kind of a strange reason to dislike a Balenciaga collection since that's what Balenciaga is all about.

One might say that this way of approaching a collection critically, you are expressing, would be rather rigid and limited, but no I don't see anything strange in the critique, first and foremost because Cristobal Balenciaga shapes had a fluidity to them, a connection and relationship between the clothing and the body, while what Nicolas Ghesquière is creating is simply decorative effects.

Extension means moving into the next, not "just show what's underneath"!

Exactly!

Could you elaborate?

 

[lemeray]

I have some HQs Will post some soon...

 

[educo]

Maybe it's a commentary of the world today where the majority of civilization has become slaves to the workforce almost like robots. Or his thoughts on the cycle of fashion. Or maybe that's how he sees the Balenciaga woman; only restricted to him. To me, it runs deeper than the visual impact or non impact. I think it's not fair to judge it based on silhouette and form and not look deeper to what he actually might be saying.

 

[Spike413]

But why does it have to be fluid? There are plenty of designers who do fluid clothes that move on the body, Ghesquiere has never really been one of those people. Why should he start now?

I think the real strength of this collection is the fact that after years of frou, silliness and girlish excess, a designer is finally saying that you can retain your femininity without giving up an ounce of strength, you can be powerful without becoming androgynous. That's true modernity, and something that, despite the rush to make women-friendly fashion, many designers have forgotten.

It's interesting that it took a man to finally spell it out for us. He took every cliche of the golden age of couture and womanly elegance and made them completely relevant again.

Side note, it's WONDERFUL to see hips again. After years of lumpy, saggy dresses and tops, I'd almost forgotten they were there. Any designer who can take a model's figure and make it look so womanly is ok in my book.

 

[lemeray]

 

[lemeray]

 

[lemeray]

All maxppp.

Not the whole collection...just some...