This, I’m certain, will be one of the most talked – about fashion shows this season! Balenciaga Spring Summer 2012 was mind blowing and it got everyone standing throughout the show! (wink) and you know they did not got up in enthusiasm. And no, it was not because of the exquisite designs Nicolas Ghesquiere delivered [...]

Once a model always a model, you think? Catwalking around in high heels is not like riding a bike, it would appear! Balenciaga head designer, Nicolas Ghesquiere has opened up about the maison’s Spring 2011 fashion show, saying that he liked his models more than his shoes. You either get the girls, or the heel, [...]

Are you, like me, eternally fascinated by what inspires a designer to do what he/she does? There’s something so magical about a designer’s home, I can’t stop myself from dreaming at what’s hiding behind closed doors. It may be just old news since it’s a scan that appeared in 1998 in a magazine, however, it’s [...]

With every new collection I discover for the Spring Summer 2010, I get the most amazing winter-ish feeling from the designs! Balenciaga Spring Summer 2010 makes no exception with all that leather! The skinny leather pants and the geometrical, asymmetrical cuts have a very urban feeling, slowly whispering to me “let us join together in [...]

Can you imagine that from the nine minutes and half of the fashion show, at least one minute it was just with the applauses? And that’s not necessarily a bad thing! And that the first two minutes were all about the song I love for almost two months now (Hot Chip – Out at the [...]

I know you were secretly hoping this was all over and done with! Now I came to spoil your wishing well with news about yet another celebrity turned designer! Nicole Richie already announced a jewelry line (due September) now she’s making you part of another great idea – a maternity line (unspecified launch date, surely [...]

Word is that Nicolas Ghesquière has been honored by the French government. And he did not received the ordinary congrats from the French officials but the title of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters. That’s quite an achievement for the London-born Balenciaga designer and the title is supposed to have been handed by [...]

Nicolas Ghesquière found a new way of exploring prints. Thought his bold shapes and unique vision, he’s still one of the last haute-couture’s designers standing proudly against fashion industrialization. Honestly, I would be hard for me to look in the mirror when dressed like that, but I admit having spotted some incredible prints I’d try [...]