Balenciaga
In Alexander Wang’s premiere resort collection for the house of Balenciaga, the young designer chose to operate in a bichrome palette – 99.9% black and white, save for the footwear's wriggly golden ankle straps or the jewelry's darkened malachite glow....
Balenciaga unveiled its fall '13 ad campaign this morning, marking the first promotional effort undertaken by the house’s new creative director, Alexander Wang. Shot by Steven Klein, it’s an engaging image – thanks mainly to a headless Kristen...
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Balenciaga’s ex-creative director Nicolas Ghesquière has finally gone on record regarding his departure from the fabled house. His main problem seems to be his personal identity's erosion at the helm of an increasingly corporate brand. “I heard people...
Spring doesn’t have to be all about pastels and prettiness. Evoke noir surrealism with these quirky-chic options...1) Balenciaga’s black suede mid-calf boots are versatile, while a unique angular closure gives them extra kick. A toe-cap echoes the...
Call them color-wheel kicks. If you haven’t seen the smattering of street-style shots featuring fine young dandies in suits and Sauconys, Google up. They’re everywhere. Here, ARTINFO runs down the best and, literally, the brightest of spring’s sneakers...
Over the course of twenty years, the influential French graphic-design duo of M/M (Paris) have all but invented a language of their own, a visual language, starting with their quirky alphabets made from pieces of distorted images. But the high-concept...
Fashion month has come and gone, and as Céline's Phoebe Philo recently told Vogue, "[The clothes are] in the hands of the fashion editors and stylists." Though she left out journalists, there's still much to discuss from our end. Irrespective of the trends (...
Marking the debut of his sure-to-be-scrutinized tenure at Balenciaga, Alexander Wang showed his first collection for the lore-rich house early this morning, à Paris. Mercifully, he played it safe, coloring well inside the proverbial lines with a...
Finally, fashion month is nearing its denouement. We’ve reached Paris, possibly the highest-ranking of the fashion capitals, after a Transatlantic arc chock-full of punk-ed out eccentricity, austerity and luxury alike. Given the dynamism...
