Balenciaga

A vital luxury brand has to engage and reflect a contemporary world to maintain its relevancy.

The ideas about to be expressed are not all mine. They were gleaned during a dinner conversation at Kingdom in Bushwick, which is a pretty funny place to have a sustained conversation about "luxury".

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster + Ghesquière + Sauvé + Hardy =excellence in quality of thinking. Image via style.com

I mean that collection could singlehandedly render Beaugrenelle the new capital of branchitude. Rife with art school drops outs from oh-so- good families.

The most inscrutable, impenetrable and uncompromising of heritage houses finds itself knocking about on the digital mob scene.

Have you seen the new Balencaiga Facebook page? Did you like it ? No, I mean literally "like" it, as a "like" is now being counted in certain corporate quarters as a certain kind of new marketing currency.

Straight from the freshly cleared dinner tables of PFW (where the bread always goes untouched) ... The Top 5 Fashion Whispers of the moment.

Carry-on perfect, gym ready, souvenir of a legendary collection. Image via vogue.com

It happens every Spring...that Balenciaga thing

I mean...this girl is a such a good , present and aware model .

Balenciaga Fall Winter 2011 / PH: Balenciaga

The Balenciaga Watch...for butch girls and ambi-boys. But how will La Gisele wear it in the campaign?

It is in store kids...

Praying for a sane price point! Image via vogue.com

It's a cuff ! It's a watch! It's a surefire hit

Cool girls of the world your arches rejoice ! Image via vogue.com

"Just when you thought you knew what the House Of ________________ stood for , its chief designer has decided to topple over those cliches. But will women want to be ...uhmmm ...brought down to earth?"

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