Enter- My slightly coffee buzzed Fashion Panic Attack! Seriously...He's my favorite designer!
This man not only transformed the way we relate to-what was considered at one time a lagging fashion dynasty- Balenciaga! He reinterpreted the classic silhouettes of the label, while infusing a much needed futuristic and pop art inspired panache.
Watch this Video for more on the man...
Nicolas Ghesquiere was only 25 when he was tapped to take over the Balenciaga label. And when Balenciaga was purchased by the Gucci Group in 2001, Ghesquiere said he would only stay in the company if he had complete artistic control of Balenciaga (since he was named the most sought after and most influential designer in 1999 & 2000, respectively...) Gucci agreed!
Here is a taste of this genius!
Please take note ladies!
This is what Sarah Mower (One of my favorite fashion journalists) said about my favorite collection Spring 2007 RTW for Style.com-
"I was thinking of robotic articulation. Car parts. Droids. A boyish silhouette…" said Nicolas Ghesquière before he was dragged off to sort out a last-minute glitch. Moments later, 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.
Ghesquière said he'd been watching The Terminator, and 1982's Tron, the first blockbuster to combine computer animation with real actors, but that's by-the-by. What's special about these clothes is the way the designer brings his distinctively Parisian, perfectionist genius for cut and exceptional fabric into the consciousness of high-tech culture. It's not one monolithic look, easily captured in a comic-strip subtitle. Ghesquière's intense shows work through a half-dozen separate ideas linked in sequence. This time he moved from tailoring to shiny "nylon" silk-swathed dresses, to patent-edged shirtdresses, heavily-hewn sculpted leather and crocodile, metallic pantsuits, and finally to the coup de grâce: astonishing combinations of drapey silk-print tunics and gleaming bronze or gold metal robot-leggings, embroidered with futuristic paillettes.
If last season's vastly influential Balenciaga collection looked back, this one projects forward into a new era for the house Ghesquière is fast defining as his own. There is no sense of a lurch, because these ideas of space-age fantasy have always been on a slow burn in his work—along with the attenuated line and his deftness with technique. With this collection, he leapt ahead. It's true that thoughts of space-age robo-women have been circulating already this season, as well as reminders that the likes of Thierry Mugler and Jean Paul Gaultier went there in the eighties, but it takes a major talent like Nicolas Ghesquière to turn a literal reference into something that is light years from pastiche...
And there you have it! If you're sipping your coffee, as I am doing, while listening to the works of Edith Piaf-then we are kindred spirits. I can't help but wish that I had been there for these masterful shows! I'm sure if you're like me-You Agree!
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