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Balenciaga goes back to the future.
(From Guardian Unlimited)
A fashion designer's job is dependent on his ability to predict the future - or at least what customers will want to buy in six months' time. But time can occasionally seem confused, because fashion's vision of the future is often rooted very much in the past. Designers like to promote a sepia-tinted image of the 1970s via flares and kaftans, or use ruffles and frills that could have come from a Merchant Ivory film.
Nicolas Ghesquiere, the designer for the hugely influential label Balenciaga, has always bucked against that tendency. The reverence he is accorded in the industry is largely due to his inventiveness as opposed to the wearability of his clothes, which still seem to be made mainly for the very tall, the very thin and the very brave. Quite how the humpbacked dresses made out of raincoat material he has proffered for this season will work on the high street remains to be seen.
Yet in today's Balenciaga show in ...
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