Showing posts with label balenciaga. Show all posts
Showing posts with label balenciaga. Show all posts
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Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Balenciaga: Spanish Master
"Balenciaga: Spanish Master" is the name of the new exposition in honor of Cristóbal Balenciaga, conceived by Oscar De La Renta (who began his career working with him) and curate by Vogue's Editor-at-Large, Hamish Bowles. Both team up to celebrate and also show the work of this amazing Spanish designer known by all.
One of the goals of this exposition is to investigate the impact of Spanish art, culture and history on Balenciaga's designs. To achieve this investigation, the expo includes more than 70 designs from Cristóbal and also traditional Spanish garnments and artworks, with this, all people attending will be able to see what influenced this designer's work.
The exhibition will take place at the Queen Sofia Institute and then it will be moved to the Young Fine Arts Museum in San Francisco, where the Vivienne Westwood and Yves Saint Laurent's expos were presented a few years ago. One of the most important facts of this exposition is - not only the fact that they pay homage to one of the greatest designers in history - to raise awareness of the important and the legacy of the Spanish culture.
As Hamish Bowles said, Balenciaga's work has been influenced by flamenco dance costumes, matadores, Goya, Velázquez and many other inspirations. He made an incredible work for this exhibition, from research and hunting around the world to get as many Balenciaga pieces as possible. He also got access to the Balenciaga archive (my biggest dream of course) and help from Nicolas Ghesquière.
Added to the amazing collection of designs, art and traditional Spanish costumes, there will be a selection of videos created Tom Kublin, one of Balenciaga's friend, who documented his work from the late 1950's through to his retirement in 1968. And also, there will be a catalogue, wrote by Hamish Bowles and some of the photographs included in this, are from Craig McDean.
This exhibition, with designs from one of the greatest couturiers, plus an amazing team like De La Renta, McDean and Hamish Bowles will make of it a huge success. So whoever's going to New York before February 19th MUST visit the Queen Sofia Spanish Institute. Is mandatory! This is one of those expos that if I were rich I would spend whatever amount to travel from wherever the hell I am just to visit it. Balenciaga's work is one of a kind. Like it or not, he was a great designer and his legacy is unique. Is like talking about Dior or Chanel, they're classics and it's part of Fashion History.
Friday, March 5, 2010
♥ Balenciaga Fall 2010: WOW!
I'm not a full time blogger, so it would be a little hard to keep updating about each and every single collection presented in all fashion weeks, so what I do is chose which ones I think are highlights and post a little something about them.
Paris, is for me the best of all fashion weeks. Besides all the great designers like Dior, Chanel, Comme des Garçons, etc, they always have the best materials, shapes, finishings and the most avant-garde looks from all.
Now's Balenciaga's turn. Since Nicolas Ghesquière got into Balenciga the house has experience a great evolution. Since his start, he's trying to mix the classic look that Cristóbal propused back in the days with his own personal view in fashion. Ghesquière is, for me, one of the most modern and forward looking designers of this era. You can that in his clothes, in the materials he chooses for his designs. Watching details shots for each piece, makes you feel amazed of the work, detail and techonology present in whatever he makes.
For Fall 2010, he presented a collection full of a space era feeling mixed with the 70's. The materials: synthetic foam and plywood (weird I know!). "I was working on something domestic. Casual things mixed with classic. And a kind of rigidity," he said. On this season pieces, you can see everything from geometric, fur, collages, stiff, matte, shine, cashmere. It's a whole new proposal in the fashion world and of course it came from Ghesquière, a genius.
THE SHOES! "Block-heeled loafers with brogues with the soles encased in chunks of platic", as described by Sarah Mower. In my opinion, mind-blowing shoes! An amazing design, mixing classic (loafers) with a complex heel made of chunks, squares and different patterns and materials. These are the kind of shoes that you either love them or hate them. Me, I LOVE them.
Another interesting thing about the collection was the colors (pale blue, tangerine, brown and aqua) and the machine-perforated fabric trimmed with embroidery. This is part of the creation of a guy that's always pushing boundaries, creating fashion for the 21st century, evolutionazing a house that was created decades ago and putting it it an actual context, succesfully.
I love fur! Sorry whoever might be offended with this statement. Besides that I think that the material mix is great. Look at the detail on the arms of the coat.
Great color selection!
The shape of this top, plus the color and the details of it makes it amazing.
This coat might look simple. But if you check every cut and detail in it is WOW! Great construction, great structure, amazingly detailed.
Machine-perforated fabric ♥
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