Balenciaga Spring 2012

So with a reported five or so benches collapsing, the drama and suspense began at Balenciaga's Spring 2012 runway show before the clothes had even come out. When they did however, in true Balenciaga-style, they were something to talk about.
Designer Ghesquière certainly pushed the silhouette with the last five or so dresses in the collection, and while I never got those, the pieces that came before were impressive. Quotidian color-blocked jackets were a highlight, their shoulders exaggerated and masculine. Everything here came off like haute couture, and really, Ghesquière would have it no other way.

Balenciaga Fall/Winter 2011

The full skirt is making a comeback this season, it seems, and it seems Nicolas Ghesquière got the memo. The collection, admittedly, wasn't as cutting-edge as other Balenciaga collections seasons past, but one would be hard-pressed to not agree that it was at least very wearable.
Fantasy prints featuring lizards and flowers were adorned on hip-slung, folded-petal skirts covering the knees. Ghesquière called his new print, a multi-coloured dream-landcsape on white silk, "almost like a hallucination, like when you are a child and everything seems bigger than it is".
The key silhouette was a larger boxy top half, and a tapering lower half, with height added in the form of high-heeled, coloured snakeskin or black and white, multi-strapped sandals and ankle-boots.
Dimension also played a big part in a series of dresses in primary colors, all covered in a string mesh.
Combining Renaissance court neck and shoulder ruffles, high-tech sequin panes, silk panels in mixes of bright white and Roman imperial purple, Ghesquiere whipped up a great finale of tough yet dreamy dresses and tunics worn over neoprene leggings.

Balenciaga Menswear Spring/Summer 2011

With everything trim and belted, incorporating even an odd zebra-like print, Nicolas Ghesquière presented sports-like pieces for his ever expanding menswear line for the house of Balenciaga.

Balenciaga Fall/Winter 2010: Accessories

Here's a close-up look of the accessories from Balenciaga's recent collection which I still can't get enough of.

The shoes were gooooooooor-GEEE-ous!!! Loved the heel detail- reminds me of children's wooden building blocks and mathematical cubes.

I was also reminded of milk boxes and cardboard shipping cartons. Bottom line: Nicolas Ghesquière is a genius!