Balenciaga in Paris: "She looks like a solar panel, no?"

According to Style.com's Sarah Mower, Nicolas Ghesquière commented during his Balenciaga show in Paris yesterday that dressed in a sequin sheath, one of the models looked like a solar panel. And that was the point. Well, not to create clothes that resemble alternative sources of heating exactly, but rather to explore "matte and shine, playing with textures to see how they reflect or absorb light." Ghesquière has the fashion editors falling at his feet thanks to his genius with fabrics and his ability to implement new technology into couture techniques. So expect that Balenciaga will be a name that's going to remain on the lips of the fashion editors and the hips of the fashionistas for quite some time. As long as Ghesquière is at the helm, anyway.

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