One word sums up the item du jour this week: Balenciaga. Anything Balenciaga is hot but the latest collection just seen in Paris is all you want. WWD writes “If the fashion futurism we’ve seen so far this season has been of the back-to-the-future Mod variety, on Tuesday morning Nicolas Ghesquière took it in a whole new direction at Balenciaga. With his soundtrack invoking the theme — “The robots are coming.”"When?” — he went lean, mean, metaled up and light years away from the structured pouffery of the fall collection that so impressed some of his colleagues in Milan. Anyone looking for an alternative to pretty, your quest is over. Ghesquière’s vision is a dark one, populated by aggressive warrior-bots in various sliver-thin layerings of black worn with weighty chain platform shoes and often, brassy ergonomic leg armor. There were men’s wear wools, waxed leathers, croc, bits of sheer, what looked like gun belts and some major plastic work delivered in new renditions of the designer’s signature skinny rock ‘n’ roll silhouette, altered significantly for that otherworldly vibe.” Go to Style.com for more.
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