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- Nicolas Ghesquiere is a French fashion designer. When he was young, he did a lot of sports, such as fencing, horse riding, and swimming. Later, these experiences also provided him inspiration in fashion design. He started to be interested in fashion from a young age. When he was 14, he did internship for agnès b. Even though he had doubt about his choice, he finally stay in fashion. He worked from 1990 to 1992 as an assistant to designer Jean-Paul Gaultier. Through his contacts with Marie-Amélie Sauvé and Nathalie Marrec of Balenziaga, he entered Balenciaga and worked under a Japanese license. In 1997, after his his Dutch predecessor Josephus Thimister was fired following a highly unsuccessful show, he was promoted to creative director of Balenciaga. In 2012, he left Balenciaga and entered LV in the next year.
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- Nicolas as a designer is known for his contrast style: fuse two apparently contradictory ideas together to create a synthesis that has never occurred to anyone before. These are some looks from Blenciaga spring 2006 Ready-to-Wear.
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- looks from the same collection in the same color tone. The show condensed Balenciaga past and present, starting with evocations of Cristobal’s cocktail bubbles, creamily rendered in heavy radzimir and embossed silk, and then delivering the surprise—densely elaborated upgrades of Ghesquière’s tailoring and drifty patchwork dresses.(There is connection between each design: the materials use, the deeply flounced hems, or the cascading frills.)
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- This dress is from Balenciaga ss 2006 Ready-to-Wear
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- Nicolas was doing adjustment for a garment. Designers will do a lot of adjustment during the process. After they see their design on the model, they may adjust the garment to improve the expression of their ideas.
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- The model was standing by behind the runway.
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- The model is on the runway. The showing of a design help deliver designers’ concept. It indicates the end of the design process.
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- The neck part is made of nude silk gazar. Gazar is gleaming and lightweight, but easy to hold the shape. It is used here to have a exaggerated collar but not too heavy on the neck.
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- The upper part is ivory rayon-cotton satin jacquard. It makes the garment look more deluxe.
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- The skirt part is combined with ivory silk organza and white nylon-rayon lace, embroidered with floral motifs in ivory linen floss. Organza is used a lot for wedding dress. Because it is harder than gazar, it keeps the puffy structure.
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- For this design, Nicolas got inspiration from an 18 century’s pannier dress. Although there isn’t a pannier under the dress, the material choice helps finish the stiff structure around the waist.
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- This is an example of a 18 century’s pannier dress from an oil painting.
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- Another garment in the same collection that has a similar design on the collar. Even though this is a women’s collection, Nicolas borrowed a lot of elements from 18 century’s men’s wear, for example the pantsuits.
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- This is an 18 century’s oil painting. The similar design of collar and the cuffs can be seen in this collection.
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- I sketch this design.
