Balenciaga: Ghesquière's vision of the future
The heavy hitters of fashion showed their Spring 07 RTW collections yesterday. Dior, Westwood, Balenciaga, Gaultier all came ready to hit it out of the ballpark. Fortunately we received the expected best, and some surprises.
A special highlight was Balenciaga. Nicolas Ghesquière is ableto follow up a crazily popular Fall 06 RTW Collection with a equally unique and exciting Spring 07 RTW Collection. "I was thinking of robotic articulation. Car parts. Droids. A boyish silhouette…" said Ghesquière.
Here is a review of this Spring Collection from Style.com, "his incredible futuristic vision was out of the gate: elongated black jackets with a double-layered shoulder line; cyber-goddess dresses jigsawed from patent leather; space-crew shirts with high white collars. Within seconds, the message in these refined, precision-judged looks was sending chills through an audience that five minutes earlier had been on the point of meltdown from heat. Was it worth the wait? Without a doubt. Like last season's Balenciaga retrospective triumph, this is a collection that will reset the fashion agenda, but in a different way." – Sarah Mower
