Word: balenciaga
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...Ford Eyewear debuted this month with the slick Jennifer model. The former Gucci guru, who has a special love for sunglasses, clearly sees bigger as better. Tattoo You Body art is back in fashion as brands like Ed Hardy T shirts and A & G cashmere flaunt tattoo motifs. Even Balenciaga designer Nicolas Ghesqui?re is selling tattoo-style T shirts. Nude is the New Black Designers have embraced a palette that's as fresh as a compact full of face powder. Makeup colors like ivory and blush dominate the latest collections and have even infiltrated Burberry's shoes. By Kate Betts...
...Ford Eyewear debuts this month with the slick Jennifer model. The former Gucci guru, who has a special love for sunglasses, clearly sees bigger as better. TATTOO YOU Body art is back in fashion as brands like Ed Hardy T shirts and A & G cashmere flaunt tattoo motifs. Even Balenciaga designer Nicolas Ghesquière is selling tattoo-style T shirts...
...clearly not Kansas when Dorothy dons Balenciaga. Pride & Prejudice star KEIRA KNIGHTLEY and minimalist painter BRICE MARDEN are part of an Oz-themed pictorial in next month's Vogue. Annie Leibovitz also shot painters Jasper Johns and John Curren as the Cowardly Lion and the Tin Man. Aren't artists supposed to be prickly, reclusive and, you know, serious? Not when Annie's folks call. "They just told me to bring hats," says Marden, a friend of Leibovitz's. "It was easier than a Gap ad I did once...
...working. According to François-Henri Pinault, CEO of Balenciaga owner PPR, Ghesquière has delivered higher figures than originally expected. "Balenciaga is an even more international brand than we thought," he said before the Stella McCartney show last Thursday. "He has a very strong image, but he is always challenging it. He is a searcher...
...what Ghesquière and his contemporaries have found is a new kind of modesty and romance. His play on proportions--a corset-tight jacket over frothy pajama pants or a stick-straight pantsuit with a cascade of ruffles at the neck--has its roots in the Balenciaga archives, while also reeking of street-savvy rocker chick. "What looks new to me is the baroque, but just a brush of it," Ghesquière said backstage. "I wanted to mix the severity of Balenciaga from the '60s with the lace and Spanish heritage of the house...