After Nicolas Ghesquière’s latest show for Louis Vuitton, staged among the old masters and Gilded Age grandeur of the Frick Collection, my affection for him returned with a bang. The collection left me perplexed. Confused, even. But confused in a good way – the kind of confusion that sends you back into the archives looking for answers. Which is exactly how I ended up revisiting one of the great Ghesquière collections: Balenciaga autumn-winter 2007.

And let me tell you: whatever Ghesquière and his team were on that season, I want some. Because it’s extraordinarily rare for an entire design studio, together with a stylist, to arrive at something so wicked, tweaked, spectacular and utterly forward-looking. Nearly two decades later, it still feels as if it landed from another planet. READ MY FULL TEXT HERE.

Collage by Edward Kanarecki.
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