Balenciaga Pre-Fall 2012

[Chanelcouture09]

They put a show on for this mess?

Looks just like a showroom run-through of the collection for Editors and Buyers, rather than a full blown show.

 

[maxlinden]

Im really not a fan of those booties, they are ruining the look for me

 

[Monsieur M]

This is really one of the worst collections I've ever seen...

 

[IloveDiorHomme]

Even Primark makes better clothes...

This is beyond ugly. Those prints, proportions, shoes, colours are just disgusting. It makes me want to wear a burqa rather than this so called high end fashion clothes.

Balenciaga is hiring wrong persons I guess. I read that Ghesquiere restructured his whole team recently...

 

[Flashbang]

Full Collection

Edit: Oops maxlinden go ahead!

 

[maxlinden]

HQs

Style.com

 

[maxlinden]

HQs

style.com

 

[Wolkfolk]

This collection reminds me of those old sitcoms from the late-eighties who still air from time to time, and I always feel bad for the ones who had to go throught this terrible fashion period. This c is bad because the inspiration is wrong and the execution is too literal. The menswear is sligthly better though.

 

[mackos]

bluntcard.com

 

[Phuel]

^^^LOL

The menswear is so blend at best and a nastier joke at the worst: Who would wear-- let alone buy, that awful pair of pleated, elastic-waisted pleather/wool pant concoction?

Just go away now Balenciaga.

 

[birdofparadise]

The more I'm looking at it, the more it's growing on me.

Like a fungus of some sort, though I do wonder if I'm simply making excuses for it. There's a bit of the arsenic in the applesauce here, the styling is helping us all to miss the forest for the trees, not that he hasn't done that new wave hookers bit before.

There's interesting print application that feels fresh. Are the peplums attached to the belts? It's sci-fi Saint Laurent couture. And the Horst Buchholz doppelgänger with the elastic waistband is just the cherry on top.

I want to be more upset with it but the fact of the matter is it seems an expected reaction to the nouveau minimalism that is of the moment.

 

[Ives927]

This isn't fashion ugly. It's just pure ugliness.

The collection reminds me of the movie Liquid Sky from 1982. It's like the 80's interpretation of the avant-garde space-age fashion, except we're in 2012.

 

[Littleathquakes]

those neon lights are doing the collection no favors at all.

Like it's taking you back to the 80's decade, not the fun part like Madonne or Culture Club, but the dirty part like crime and rising gang violence and those nasty chicken mcnuggets.

 

[maxlinden]

By Nicole Phelps

For pre-fall, Nicolas Ghesquière went back to "the era when France decided to be modern, the late seventies and the early eighties." Indeed, this collection embraced colors and prints not seen since the heyday of the synthesizer. But thanks to new high-tech fabrics and exaggerated silhouettes, the strongest pieces avoided the retro pitfall. Among the highlights were the cool teddy boy jackets. Patchworks of animal print, silk, and treated cotton, they were shown with a poplin smock top and turquoise track pants or thrown over an A-line minidress, opaque tights, and ankle booties.

The time period also saw the advent of a new corporate woman, so tailoring played a key role here. Oversize trenches echoed not only the eighties, but also the experimental volumes and proportions that Ghesquière used on the dresses that closed his fantastic Spring show. A sharp blazer belted at the waist above a waxy silk peplum likewise had a twenty-first-century sense of cool. On the accessories front, Balenciaga is getting behind big earrings in a big way, but the boxy new bags were stripped of all excesses.

style.com

 

[Littleathquakes]

By Nicole Phelps

For pre-fall, Nicolas Ghesquière went back to "the era when France decided to be modern, the late seventies and the early eighties." Indeed, this collection embraced colors and prints not seen since the heyday of the synthesizer. But thanks to new high-tech fabrics and exaggerated silhouettes, the strongest pieces avoided the retro pitfall.

they did?

 

[mackos]

the strongest pieces avoided the retro pitfall

The only thing it might refer to is the camel jacket, which happens to be the only decent thing in this mess.

Honestly, if anyone's making a contest for the biggest fail of this year's Pre-Fall then ding dong, number one's arrived. Even being a total Nicolas & Balenciaga bias I feel like there's no way I'm even thinking of liking it.

 

[disco54]

This isn't fashion ugly. It's just pure ugliness.

The collection reminds me of the movie Liquid Sky from 1982. It's like the 80's interpretation of the avant-garde space-age fashion, except we're in 2012.

loooooooooooooooooool so true, the 80s interpretation of space age fashion, that movie was bizarre as hell. Here is a clip so you guys know what we are talking about. This is just HORRID. I dont mind retro, but 80s retro is as bad as it can get.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dcllpHRpUU

 

[ForChicSake]

Call me crazy all you want but I LOVE IT! the majority of the looks when looked at separately are fabulous. 5 stars from me!

 

[Stereo_Flo]

by Hamish Bowles​

For his pre-fall collection, Nicolas Ghesquière had a very specific reference in mind; the early 1980s post-punk Buffalo Girls whose layered clothing—blending 50s retro elements with boyfriend jackets and big-shouldered Working Girl power coats—reflected the eclecticism of Postmodernism. (For an eye-popping crash course in the genre, check out London’s Victoria and Albert Museum’s riveting multimedia exhibition “Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970–1990,” sure to have a powerful effect on designers’ imaginations this season.)

Ghesquière’s styling was pitch-perfect. The look, authentically period but suddenly edgy again, was all about layering. A broad-shouldered, stiff textured black boyfriend jacket transformed with a cinching belt and a pleated peplum of shiny pigment-treated cotton, worn over tapered maroon silk pants, for instance. A bold zebra-stripe print (originally used by Cristóbal Balenciaga in 1964, now blown up large) was used for awkwardly pleated dresses and bomber jackets in the jarring color blocks (red, olive, black, hot pink) favored by the Memphis Group. Wide-cut coats billowed to the hips for a low-slung silhouette, but pedal-pusher pants and pencil skirts hugged the natural waist. For evening, a dash of liquid-pink gold or a copper jersey blouse over a skirt.

The details—opaque hose in muddy tones of teal and lilac, dripping-leaf or lightning-bolt-shaped gold earrings, mean-heeled shoes and booties in patchworks of animalier-printed calfskin, side-parted hair—wittily suggested the look of a girl flipping through the latest issue of Jill magazine, listening to the electronic music of Kraftwerk and Ultravox, and readying herself to strut her stuff at Le Palace or Les Bains Douches, the Parisian nightclubs of that moment.

-vogue​

 

[TaylorBinque]

Wow, I can't believe I'm saying this. But this collection is ugly. And gosh, Katy Perry would love these outfits!