WWD: Balenciaga RTW Fall 2012

Nicolas Ghesquière — modernist clothier to the working woman? Such was the ruse behind the designer's interesting fall collection for Balenciaga. Ghesquière took his audience to the recently renovated Tour Cristal, a late-Nineties office tower, a proper backdrop for an idea he's been percolating for some several years. "The last tall building [built] in Paris," he said in a preview. "I had this idea about a Balenciaga firm done in a very cinematic way, with different characters with different functions, the executives, the technicals, legal, the researchers, all about how women dress for work." For the full review: http://bit.ly/x4yICI