Balenciaga Resort 2013

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[Littleathquakes]

OK now we're getting back to the good designs from Nicholas. this is really good.

 

[valliaddict]

You have no idea how happy I am that he has regain his sanity!!! This is the Balenciaga I love!!

 

[Psylocke]

^True! Although, when I look at the shoes and these two looks
http://www.style.com/slideshows/2012/fashionshows/2013RST/BALENCIA/RUNWAY/021m.jpg http://www.style.com/slideshows/2012/fashionshows/2013RST/BALENCIA/RUNWAY/020m.jpg
I'm not so sure he's quite over his weird phase yet. I really do like a lot here and it makes me excited for the next main collection.
Love the peach colored maxidress with the leather top Some really stunning looks here.

 

[Frida]

I dont know which direction Ghesquiere's heading with the new team yet, but personally i'm loving what he's done so far, the whole collection and styling are really good!

 

[vandekamp]

http://www.style.com/slideshows/2012/fashionshows/2013RST/BALENCIA/RUNWAY/015m.jpg

those shoes.

honestly, I love this resort. it's very fresh and the colours are to die for; mmm the peach, blue and purple! not sure how I feel about the head caps/fluffy things on the models' heads though..

 

[Deleted member 119799]

thank god it isn't as bad as last season's

a bit hit and miss for me, really not a fan of that labia dress

 

[Wolkfolk]

It isn't as bad as last season because you can't make worse than his latest collections. This being said, this collection is far from being satstisfying or Ghesquière worthy. I find it very quickly executed and quite lazy to be honest. There's no real depth in this collection. It just a bunch of average look, not ugly but not fantastic either. And those shoes...Damn , he used to be a reference in termes of accessories. Where are the killer shoes from Fall 06 and 08, the sandals from SS08 or SS05 ??
As for the clothes, there's nothing Ghesquière about them. Silhouettes are far from being appealing, the cutouts looks more Mugler-ish than Balenciaga. But that's not the problem. There's an obvious attempt at creating something interesting : giving a minimalist touch to his aesthetic but it doesn't work. The boxy jackets look like they came out of a graduation collection. The color palette doesn't help and yet I'm a hug pastel fan.
Anyway, I find it quite amusing that nowadays other designers do the Nicolas Ghesquière for Balenciaga style, better than Nicolas himself.

 

[Not Plain Jane]

Love the harness looks and those shaped cropped jackets.

Dislike the cut outs and those flirty frilly short skirts - too juvenille.

Hate those freaky boots!

 

[Thefrenchy]

This collection is like a trompe l'oeil. Some of it looks good from afar but when you look at it closely, you find out you were wrong and it's actually quite bad. The first blouse that looks like what a 50 y-o secretary would wear, the last four looks who look like they were made with what you found in your bathroom, the horrible ruffles...

It's still very Ghesquière; and I think his vision of Balenciaga is still here and very strong but it just doesn't have the charm it used to have.

 

[Prairie]

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[Frida]

NEW YORK, June 5, 2012
By Nicole Phelps

A surprise discovery of costumes that Cristobal Balenciaga made for a ballet performance of Ravel's Boléro in the 1930's inspired Nicolas Ghesquière's new pre-collection. Not just the fluidity but also the color palette: baby blue, baby pink, and a barely-there shade of yellow he called bergamot. If you're thinking that sounds almost too straightforward for a Balenciaga collection in 2012, you're right. Ghesquière doesn't "do" just pretty, and so there was more to these clothes than the backstory might suggest.

The flou of a long ivory dress, for example, was juxtaposed by a rigid molded leather harness that brought to mind Game of Thrones' dragon queen Daenerys Targaryen more than it did Ida Rubinstein, the Russian ballerina who commissioned Ravel's piece. In fact, the look is a riff on Ghesquière's own oeuvre; the Art Nouveau-ish cutouts on the harness refer back to a Jules Verne collection from his early days at the house.

Elsewhere, the hard/soft motif played out on a great-looking sleeveless sheath that married a scubalike material with draped pinstriped wool, and also on flowy pastel dresses and skirts bonded with a stiffer neoprene that created sculptural, three-dimensional ruffles. The new pant silhouette is high-waisted, with a wide belt bisecting the torso, while jackets, both single- and double-breasted, have a boxy, mannish mien. Ghesquière undercut that too, though, with dainty bras peeking out beneath.

There's no Balenciaga lingerie collection on the horizon, but if there were, we imagine it'd do better than well at the new Paris flagship set to open in a former parking garage on Rue Saint-Honoré later this month.

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[Hazel]

I don't know what to think. On the one hand, the colours are lovely and those looks are not what I've excepted. It's quite refreshing to see a collection like this one coming from Balenciaga. But, on the other hand, it all looks a little bit lazy, like it could have been done better.

One thing that I'm completely sure of is that those shoes are evil .

 

[ChrissyM]

i'm not surprised that there was a surprise discovery of Cristobel Balenciaga designed looks

this definitely has more of a back to basics, back to the Balenciaga archives look than a lot of his more recent collections.

I don't love all of it, but i do like a lot of it.

 

[Maudelle]

It's more wearable than his recent collections that's for sure!

 

[mackos]

It looks better than the last resort/pre-fall collection, that's for sure. Not sure about the cut-outs, but most of it has this nice 2008-like vibe of his resort collections which I loved, although those boots and hats have to go away right now.

 

[Marc10]

The lightness of both colour pallet and fabrics with touches of tailoring here and there are such a pleasant surprise. There are a few bug, like the hideous shoes and hats, the questionable execution with the cutouts and ruffles in some of the dresses (especially the ones on Suvi and Liya, they look beyond cheap), but overall it's a very nice collection. Nicolas seems to be moving on to right direction, that means the hell away from the disastrous last collections.