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>> Ho ho ho! Despite my being freaked out by the concept of Santa Claus as a child (a man coming down a chimney sneaking about eating biscuits...?) I come here today masquerading as that pot-bellied bearded fellow bearing gifts errr... picture treats. If there are crap Santas in shopping malls the world over handing out cheap sweets/candy, then I'm the fashion blogger equivalent, handing out texture/fabric candy treats with these images taken at the Balenciaga showroom back in October. The last few seasons of Balenciaga has coincided with my getting to see the stuff up close each time (because clearly I'm never gonna be at the hallowed show...) where I've noticed a distinctive shift towards fabric manipulation that Nicolas Ghesquière and his team have put a lot of effort into and the S/S 11 collection is no exception.
It's only up-close you see just how many texture/fabric candy treats Ghesquière (fashion's fabrication tech-y Santa Claus?) has stuffed into one collection which when coupled with the masculine moto-meets-Teddyboy silhouettes and styling (no need to repeat catwalk images...) really adds a new spin on those those sub-culture modes of dress. It's also amazing how many texture-based words pops into my head when contemplating so many itty bitty bits of fabric manipulation... cracked, plasticised, melted, marbled, coated, tufted, bubbled...as well as made-up words for the sort of hybrid fabrics he creates such as "geo-lace" (the colour blocking over the lace) or "sequin-spider-knit" (where the sequins are worked into a holey knit)...
Then there are these cowboy-style metal collar tips accented in white and black enamel which I may have stroked a few too many times palm-facing because it's in effect such a simple addition that literally and figuratively adds weight to the texture-ridden shirts. Finding some collar tips of my own wouldn't be difficult but finding the counterpart shirt that even tries to match the complexity of these ones would be a pointless task...
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