Women's Wear Daily (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
“Seduction,” the latest exhibition to bow at the Museum at FIT, examines how clothing plays into temptation and enticement.
JAK (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
TO COINCIDE WITH THIS POST, I MADE A LITTLE PURCHASE LAST NIGHT OR EARLY THIS MORNING YOU COULD SAY ON YOOX.COM. WHEN I REALLY, REALLY WANT SOMETHING, I’LL FIND A WAY TO OWN IT. IF I HAVE TO MAX MY CREDIT CARD OR BEG FOR MONEY ON THE STREET, I’LL DO IT. [...]
The Swelle Life (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
Recently, Christie's auction house in London sold a collection of avant-garde designer clothing and accessories from the 1930s to the mid-80s. The sale consisted of 229 lots and included a Cristobal Balenciaga couture evening jacket (yes, designed by the man...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
PARIS, Oct. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Balenciaga S.A. and Coty Inc., today announced an exclusive partnership to create, develop and distribute fragrance lines under the Balenciaga name. Effective immediately, the partnership will renew the Balenciaga...
Chic in Paris (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Léonard Véronique Leroy, the head designer of Léonard seems to think it is time for some peace and love. The Hippie look she showed this season was a mix of mini dresses, maxi length gowns and widely cut jumpsuits. The inevitable Léonard signature prints were done in pale colors with spots of bright yellow and violet. [...]
SHOWstudio (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
Even before Star Trek and the Cold War Space Race, Cristobal Balenciaga's remit was always to go where no man had gone before. Nicolas Ghesquiere continues this house tradition, albeit often more in the vein of Balenciaga's decidedly Sci Fi protege Andre Courreges. This season, Ghesquiere was inspired by light:... [ more ]
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
Nicolas Ghesquière at Balenciaga propelled himself into a masterly position, in which light, the eerie colors cast on shimmering dresses, and lightness, as in fluidly draped jerseys, made an extraordinary impact.
Financial Times (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
It ended on a high note. There they were, the pair of go-to guys for British urban glamour, Erdem Moralioglu and Duro Olowu, staging their catwalk shows back-to-back...
Jezebel (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Born in the Dominican Republic, educated in Spain, trained by Cristóbal Balenciaga and friends with Diana Vreeland, Oscar de la Renta is basically a legend in his own time. His designs are always... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Women's Wear Daily (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Tailoring and double-layer fabrics were hallmarks of Schön's long career.
I want - I got (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Balenciaga Edition Fall Winter 2008 - 2009 This sounds very interesting and very expensive. The Fall Winter 2008 - 2009 Balenciaga Ready-To-Wear Collection has developed a line “Balenciaga Edition”. The design studio selected ten designs from the house archives of Cristobal Balenciaga’s Haute Couture collections dating between 1940 & 1967. Their development is focused on a meticulous [...]
SHOWstudio (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
Mona von Bismarck remarked of Cristóbal Balenciaga that "the wit is on the head" - a maxim that Nasir Mazhar takes to heart, or rather, has let go to his own head. For Future Tense , we could ask nothing more than for Nasir to push his formidable feats of millinery... [ more ]
SHOWstudio (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
Cristobal Balenciaga retired from fashion with the immortal refrain 'it was a dog's life.' Forty years later, the business of being a young - or not-so-young - fashion upstart is still by no means easy, regardless of talent. Now in it's (slightly staggering) 14th season, the British Fashion Council's NewGen ... [ more ]
Fashionista.com (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
Exactly one month and one day after Yves Saint Laurent's death, Christie's will auction off seven pieces of his designs, mostly jewelry, along with some pieces from Christian Lacroix, Thierry Mugler, Cristóbal Balenciaga and Gianni Versace. You can already place bids for the YSL items on the Christie's site , with the glass mosaic clip-on earrings at left expected to start between $800 and $1,200....
Business World (Free subscription) | 06/15/2008
Only someone with the magic touch can turn a model into a hunchback in high heels and still keep her appeal -- in fact, adding a dash of sexy along with a meter or two of fabric (or hell, make it a full-on tulle petticoat bustling madly) at her back.
