Balenciaga F/W 2008.09 Paris
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I'm loving the details and the cut of the pieces...it didn't hit me when I just saw the looks but the detailed pictures totally swayed me....one of my fave so far...
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To quote Blanche DuBois - "I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic."[/SIZE]
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^^If the opening dresses of Balenciaga FW 07 costs over $100,000 (if I'm not mistaken), I'd expect these hand painted latex dresses to be just as much if not more!
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I actually love this collection
Those white boots are crazy and yes they remind me of condoms but the other shoes are kind-of safe.
Those white boots are crazy and yes they remind me of condoms but the other shoes are kind-of safe.
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finally he's back to good.
it's like a mix of different collections he did, non?
lack of imagination?????
it's good, some silhouettes are great.... but honestly these japanese prints are "berk berk!!!" (i think i just hate prints!)
and those puffed shoulders will make the women look like a monster. i even wonder if i don't see this kind of shoulders before last season. not remember the name of designer, though.....
it's good....... but i think i still feel disappointed because he didn't do a truly good collection from A to Z....
it's like a mix of different collections he did, non?
lack of imagination?????
it's good, some silhouettes are great.... but honestly these japanese prints are "berk berk!!!" (i think i just hate prints!)
and those puffed shoulders will make the women look like a monster. i even wonder if i don't see this kind of shoulders before last season. not remember the name of designer, though.....
it's good....... but i think i still feel disappointed because he didn't do a truly good collection from A to Z....
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i've loved everything he did since 2005 and although this wasn't my favorite of his, it most certainly did not disappoint.
Suzy Menkes: stellar show!
Balenciaga -- austerity chic
PARIS: Nicolas Ghesquière inked another page in the history of Balenciaga's revival, and it was brilliant - literally, in its super-shiny fabrics molded into sleek shapes and in its sparkling necklaces and bracelets - and also in its concept.
The chic severity of the silhouette had all Cristóbal Balenciaga's Spanish hauteur and couture complexity, with just a knife slice in the slim skirt for a modern woman to march forward on pointed-toe silver-and-black shoes.
But the shiny surfaces and rubbery latex, used as a hint of perversity on shoes or wrapped around boots, and later in the most extraordinary way for hand-painted samurai armor, added the space-age futurism that has always been part of Ghesquière's oeuvre.
The makeover of Balenciaga is exceptional because of the seamless flow of past and present, often uniting in a single outfit, as when swathes of velvet in turquoise and coral - painterly Velázquez images - partnered the tight, neoprene pants.
"Minimal, very austere, strict but sensual," said Ghesquière, referring to the change from last season's carpet of floral prints on equally sculpted dresses. But for the 2008 winter season, Ghesquière had worked with couture skill to bring simplicity to complexity. The opening black dresses had draped layers at the hips, as if they - and the coats with circular raglan sleeves - were Cristóbal's work from the early 1960s.
Hair in a severe bun at the nape of the neck and the parures of costume jewelry added to the vintage effect. Yet at the same time those sparkling faux jewels will set off a feeding frenzy through the fashion world. Significantly, costume jewelry replaced bags as the must-have accessory.
In many ways the collection was calmer and more classic, although the latex added a sexual element. That came too when top and bottom halves of an outfit were divided with a gauzy insert, as though flesh were allowed to breathe through the carapace. The hand-painted latex of the finale, recalling both Ghesquière's early scuba prints and noble warrior paintings, were a tour de force of the imagination in this stellar show.
iht.com, suzy menkes
Balenciaga -- austerity chic
PARIS: Nicolas Ghesquière inked another page in the history of Balenciaga's revival, and it was brilliant - literally, in its super-shiny fabrics molded into sleek shapes and in its sparkling necklaces and bracelets - and also in its concept.
The chic severity of the silhouette had all Cristóbal Balenciaga's Spanish hauteur and couture complexity, with just a knife slice in the slim skirt for a modern woman to march forward on pointed-toe silver-and-black shoes.
But the shiny surfaces and rubbery latex, used as a hint of perversity on shoes or wrapped around boots, and later in the most extraordinary way for hand-painted samurai armor, added the space-age futurism that has always been part of Ghesquière's oeuvre.
The makeover of Balenciaga is exceptional because of the seamless flow of past and present, often uniting in a single outfit, as when swathes of velvet in turquoise and coral - painterly Velázquez images - partnered the tight, neoprene pants.
"Minimal, very austere, strict but sensual," said Ghesquière, referring to the change from last season's carpet of floral prints on equally sculpted dresses. But for the 2008 winter season, Ghesquière had worked with couture skill to bring simplicity to complexity. The opening black dresses had draped layers at the hips, as if they - and the coats with circular raglan sleeves - were Cristóbal's work from the early 1960s.
Hair in a severe bun at the nape of the neck and the parures of costume jewelry added to the vintage effect. Yet at the same time those sparkling faux jewels will set off a feeding frenzy through the fashion world. Significantly, costume jewelry replaced bags as the must-have accessory.
In many ways the collection was calmer and more classic, although the latex added a sexual element. That came too when top and bottom halves of an outfit were divided with a gauzy insert, as though flesh were allowed to breathe through the carapace. The hand-painted latex of the finale, recalling both Ghesquière's early scuba prints and noble warrior paintings, were a tour de force of the imagination in this stellar show.
iht.com, suzy menkes
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I find the cuts clinical (and yet, strangely awkward) and sterile...
How one can slit a skirt up to the panty line and have it still look asexual, is a complete mystery to me.
However, I absolutely adore the Japanese prints and the jewellery.
How one can slit a skirt up to the panty line and have it still look asexual, is a complete mystery to me.
However, I absolutely adore the Japanese prints and the jewellery.
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I really like some of the dresses and tops that look like a slightly toned down version of the SS show. Some of those white/cream dresses. They are just very beautiful.
A lot of the rest leaves me cold; the PVC coats are terribly unflattering bordering on the ridiculous - even the models look absurd in them.
I don’t like the rounded, puffy shoulders on the jackets either they just look very stiff, especially compared to the two pictures posted from his previous collections where I think he did them much more flattering and wearable.
The slits on the black dresses ruins them for me. I think the only place they work are on the grey skirts.
Overall I’m pretty disappointed.
Don’t like the shoes either
A lot of the rest leaves me cold; the PVC coats are terribly unflattering bordering on the ridiculous - even the models look absurd in them.
I don’t like the rounded, puffy shoulders on the jackets either they just look very stiff, especially compared to the two pictures posted from his previous collections where I think he did them much more flattering and wearable.
The slits on the black dresses ruins them for me. I think the only place they work are on the grey skirts.
Overall I’m pretty disappointed.
Don’t like the shoes either
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