Showing posts with label Balenciaga. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Balenciaga. Show all posts
Monday, 3 December 2012
Sunday, 21 October 2012
Kristen and Nicolas Ghesquiére Talk Balenciaga With Vanity Fair Italy
Translation
I’ve never seen a muse so into her role and an artist so inspired. The dangerous relationship between Kristen Stewart and Nicolas Ghesquiére, started for pure interest, as often happens between an Hollywood actress and a successful designer.. “it could have left no trace on me, instead it changed my life”, Kristen tells to Vanity Fair, in a suite at the Bristol Hotel in Paris, looking at Nicolas.
How did you meet each other?
K: I accepted this collaboration, following my instinct, as I always do. Then he got me involved completely. I forgot that I was american, 22, and I found another world and culture; I started dreaming and I felt my body changing: I was becoming a real woman, in the capable hands of someone that guided me.
N: I didn’t want to do a “masquerade”, I wanted her, flesh and blood, with all the emotional baggage that I could get from her. I wanted her to be a “femme” and bold in her choices.
Tuesday, 16 October 2012
Tuesday, 9 October 2012
BALENCIAGA Q&A LIVE WITH KRISTEN OCT. 18TH, 2012
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Balenciaga is pleased to share with us the announcement of an exclusive live interview with Kristen Stewart on October 18th, 2012 at 8PM GMT (3PM EST)
As part of her debut as the face of Balenciaga's new fragrance Florabotanica, Kristen Stewart will be answering questions to internet users in a 30-minute live interview on October 18th. The live interview is to be filmed in Los Angeles and broadcasted live on the Balenciaga Fragrance website BalenciagaFragrance.com and on the Balenciaga Facebook page.
The thirty-minute interview will start at 8PM GMT (3PM EST) and it will be moderated by French Fashion Editor Virginie Mouzat, who will ask Kristen questions covering her roles as brand muse and fragrance endorser.
Registration to submit a question is open at BalenciagaFragrance.com/en/Live-Interview and will remain open until the interview closing time. To take advantage of this opportunity, anyone may register and submit their questions online. There are no restrictions on the number of questions per participant, and registration is free of charge. Twenty questions will be selected and a Florabotanica fragrance will be sent to anyone whose question was selected.
Participation is entirely free of charge, the Interview will be broadcasted live online and its access will not require a password. - viaI am Fabulicious
Friday, 5 October 2012
Kristen in Marie Claire Magazine - November 2012
Full Transcript
Kristen isn’t one of those girls who sprays perfume in the air and that spins around in its mist. The world’s favourite vampire has too much bite for the softly, softly approach to applying scent, ‘Fragrance is feral,’she says, rubbing her chest provocatively, ‘It’s sexual, it’s about your skin.’
In real life, Stewart is a world away from the gawky teenager that Twilight fans have come to know and love. But we all know that now because, a fortnight after this interview, news broke that she’s been two-timing R-Patz with her dashing director on Snow White and the Huntsman, Rupert Sanders. Having met her, the affair isn’t surprising in the slightest; Stewart seems to have a highly developed rebellious streak.
Considering the amount of waiting around and general celeb reverence that been involved in getting my Dictaphone in front of her, I’m pretty surprised Stewart is talking about being sexual at all. If that wasn’t enough, she says ‘f***’ and ‘c***’ all the time, too. Inside, I’m rubbing my hands with glee (‘She swears’), but I remain poker-faced. In the sweltering Parisian heat, on a plush couch, in the plushest hotel, I am not going to be the one who loses her cool factor.
Stewart and her expletives aside, there is someone else in the room, making up this rather fabulous tete-a-trois: Nicholas Ghesquiere. Better known as Mr. Balenciaga, he also happens to be my fashion hero and, if I’m going to keep my cool in front of anyone, it’s going to be him. To be clear, I’m not usually so hung up on the notion of 'cool', but it becomes a recurring theme during our chat about the new Balenciaga fragrance, Florabotanica, to which Stewart has lent her face.
For the record, both agree that fearlessness is the key to cool, 'It's about being on the edge of something - about not taking the easy route,' says Stewart, the girl who found international mega-fame as a teenager.'To be cool is not to be crippled by yourself,' she adds, lest anyone dare assume that her brisk confidence isn't the genuine article.
As for Ghesquiere, well, he's so cool he is able to pay a compliment and talk definitions. 'What's cool is bravery and to be very fashionable - and that is very Kristen." I quickly realise two things: 1) I am not very cool; 2) despite the oppressive heat, the temperature in the room (myself excluded) is sub-zero.
Not only are Stewart and Ghesquiere untouchably (sorry to be repetitive) cool (hers emerald, his sea blue) and are also proper friends. Genuine, real-life friendship is a rarity in the world of celebrity match-ups, so the conversation flows easily. They finish each other's sentences, they have in-jokes and they giggle like a pair of carefree lovers.
The pair met on a Bruce Weber shoot in 2004. 'It was a journey,' says Ghesquiere of their first conversation. 'Ever since that moment I have never forgotten her. It was a curiosity to interact with Kristen. You can't imagine anyone would ever forget her - she has a strong tendency to dominate the room.
'You meet someone and you recognise them. You f***ing recognise them', says Stewart. Observing them interact is like watching an extremely stylish version of Tom & Jerry. And from what I can gather, it's this Jerry-like fight, the rebellion i talked about earlier, that made Stewart the perfect Balenciaga muse.
The fact that she had no idea about the house's heritage (Cristóbal Balenciaga was Spain's answer to Christian Dior) was rather unexpected but, in the context of it's futuristic place in today's world, hardly surprising. By the time Nicholas Ghesquiere joined in 1995, the house had lapsed into obscurity. 'No one had any expectations,' he says. So he could perfect his craft without the world watching.
'No one cared about Balenciaga when I started, and that was a great freedom for me. I made mistakes, but that was OK.' His honestly is infectious. 'I am thankful that I have this crazy heritage, but at the same time I love looking forward.'
The results of this mash-up are the exquisitely mind-challenging clothes he shows each season. Like the house's founder, Ghesquiere challenges expectations. Cristóbal shocked the fashion world with his new silhouette: broad and rounded in the shoulders, he did away with the fashionable waist and favoured wide, tunic style dresses and coats inspired by the kimono.
Ghesquiere has his revolutionary markers, too. You can send him your thanks for that bit-sporty, bit-arty look you've been trying to perfect for several seasons now. The engineered neoprene is him, too; ditto your chunky-but-beautiful mega -heels and those moulded, curved jackets heavy with summer blooms. He has a varied vision, but his mark, his bravery, his ability to hold the house's heritage with great care and yet catapult it beyond the fashion frontier - these are the qualities that make Balenciaga the definition of, yes, cool.
'It was a sleeping beauty,' says the Frenchman of the house he inherited. 'With strength and determination, we put it back on the map. I haven't changed my intention since I started.'
Ghesquiere approached the process of perfume-making in the same way he does his mainline collections. Old meets new, 'a hybrid', he says. 'I tried not to be too hard. Fragrance is an emotion,' he adds with conviction. It's a smell, it's skin. You can remember someone from smelling them. I wanted it to stay emotional. When you try to control it too much, one thing will take over everything.'
This is where he and Stewart differ completely. He holds something back; he he lets silence, clothes, fragrance do his talking. The actress is all too aware that she is on show, an the 'on-show' Stewart can be brash and provocotive. I mean, if I was the new face of Balenciaga and had the pick of the latest collection to wear, I wouldn't have chosen a neoprene vest and grubby-looking jeans for the interview.
But that's just me. The fans love her, and the brains at Balenciaga certainly aren't stupid. they want their beautiful newrose scent, in its minimalist, Mondrian-inspired bottle to sell, and I'm guessing their target market is those savvy girls who know the brand's name, but perhaps aren't rich enough to afford one of its capacious handbags.
Stewart, therefore, is their ticket to ride, and she's happy to oblige. Because Balenciaga is cool. Seriously cool. And that's all that really matters.
For the record, both agree that fearlessness is the key to cool, 'It's about being on the edge of something - about not taking the easy route,' says Stewart, the girl who found international mega-fame as a teenager.'To be cool is not to be crippled by yourself,' she adds, lest anyone dare assume that her brisk confidence isn't the genuine article.
As for Ghesquiere, well, he's so cool he is able to pay a compliment and talk definitions. 'What's cool is bravery and to be very fashionable - and that is very Kristen." I quickly realise two things: 1) I am not very cool; 2) despite the oppressive heat, the temperature in the room (myself excluded) is sub-zero.
Not only are Stewart and Ghesquiere untouchably (sorry to be repetitive) cool (hers emerald, his sea blue) and are also proper friends. Genuine, real-life friendship is a rarity in the world of celebrity match-ups, so the conversation flows easily. They finish each other's sentences, they have in-jokes and they giggle like a pair of carefree lovers.
The pair met on a Bruce Weber shoot in 2004. 'It was a journey,' says Ghesquiere of their first conversation. 'Ever since that moment I have never forgotten her. It was a curiosity to interact with Kristen. You can't imagine anyone would ever forget her - she has a strong tendency to dominate the room.
'You meet someone and you recognise them. You f***ing recognise them', says Stewart. Observing them interact is like watching an extremely stylish version of Tom & Jerry. And from what I can gather, it's this Jerry-like fight, the rebellion i talked about earlier, that made Stewart the perfect Balenciaga muse.
The fact that she had no idea about the house's heritage (Cristóbal Balenciaga was Spain's answer to Christian Dior) was rather unexpected but, in the context of it's futuristic place in today's world, hardly surprising. By the time Nicholas Ghesquiere joined in 1995, the house had lapsed into obscurity. 'No one had any expectations,' he says. So he could perfect his craft without the world watching.
'No one cared about Balenciaga when I started, and that was a great freedom for me. I made mistakes, but that was OK.' His honestly is infectious. 'I am thankful that I have this crazy heritage, but at the same time I love looking forward.'
The results of this mash-up are the exquisitely mind-challenging clothes he shows each season. Like the house's founder, Ghesquiere challenges expectations. Cristóbal shocked the fashion world with his new silhouette: broad and rounded in the shoulders, he did away with the fashionable waist and favoured wide, tunic style dresses and coats inspired by the kimono.
Ghesquiere has his revolutionary markers, too. You can send him your thanks for that bit-sporty, bit-arty look you've been trying to perfect for several seasons now. The engineered neoprene is him, too; ditto your chunky-but-beautiful mega -heels and those moulded, curved jackets heavy with summer blooms. He has a varied vision, but his mark, his bravery, his ability to hold the house's heritage with great care and yet catapult it beyond the fashion frontier - these are the qualities that make Balenciaga the definition of, yes, cool.
'It was a sleeping beauty,' says the Frenchman of the house he inherited. 'With strength and determination, we put it back on the map. I haven't changed my intention since I started.'
Ghesquiere approached the process of perfume-making in the same way he does his mainline collections. Old meets new, 'a hybrid', he says. 'I tried not to be too hard. Fragrance is an emotion,' he adds with conviction. It's a smell, it's skin. You can remember someone from smelling them. I wanted it to stay emotional. When you try to control it too much, one thing will take over everything.'
This is where he and Stewart differ completely. He holds something back; he he lets silence, clothes, fragrance do his talking. The actress is all too aware that she is on show, an the 'on-show' Stewart can be brash and provocotive. I mean, if I was the new face of Balenciaga and had the pick of the latest collection to wear, I wouldn't have chosen a neoprene vest and grubby-looking jeans for the interview.
But that's just me. The fans love her, and the brains at Balenciaga certainly aren't stupid. they want their beautiful newrose scent, in its minimalist, Mondrian-inspired bottle to sell, and I'm guessing their target market is those savvy girls who know the brand's name, but perhaps aren't rich enough to afford one of its capacious handbags.
Stewart, therefore, is their ticket to ride, and she's happy to oblige. Because Balenciaga is cool. Seriously cool. And that's all that really matters.
When Nicholas Met Kristen is under the cut!!
Thursday, 4 October 2012
New Kristen Interview - She Talks About Her Evolving Style, Red-Carpet Clichés & Kerouac
We're going to go ahead and say it. Kristen Stewart has always felt like a bit of an enigma to us. She's an actress in a huge obsessive-screaming-fans franchise who doesn't seem to care for the limelight; she's guarded with her personal thoughts and feelings in a way that makes reading and writing about her a little maddening; and she doesn't seem to be particularly interested in beauty — yet, she's the face of one of our favorite new fragrances, Balenciaga's Florabotanica.
So, we set out on a fact-finding mission to learn a bit more about the On The Road (and yes, Twilight) star and gossip-rag fixture. And we kinda fell in love with her. Here's what we learned: She's thoughtful and willing to explore when it comes to personal style and she's pretty freaking smart and self-aware when it comes to everything else. And really, that's what we look for in our friends.
Not sold? Read on for her thoughts on everything from grandma florals and getting to know yourself through fashion that challenges you to all of those verbs in Kerouac's writing and of course, that ubiquitous hand-on-hip celeb-on-red-carpet moment. We dare you not to be a believer by the end.
So, you went to the Balenciaga show on Friday. How was it?
"So sick! It really was incredible."
Did you see a standout look in the collection that really spoke to you?
"There was this small bustier in white that's typically worn with nothing under it, but they put a T-shirt under it, and it was sick! A few of its skirts, too, and the shoes — they were crazy! I feel like I don't need to think about what I'm going to wear for the next six months because it's pretty much handled."
When you see looks on the runway like that, do you immediately know which ones you'll want for the red carpet?
"All the stuff I see is definitely for the carpet. Any of the looks I saw today, I wouldn't want to waste on something that wasn't important because this round was really, really impressive and super-fance. Balenciaga is so particular, and I don't want to make it sound exclusive, but I mean, you need to know yourself to recognize yourself in the clothes; you have to really own it.
"What I love about fashion is that you find things that surprise you, that can uncover what's buried, that unleash certain aspects of yourself. Balenciaga does this like no other and I have a great time sifting through the stuff. Nicolas [Ghesquière] always picks the most fun things ever!"
Tuesday, 2 October 2012
Monday, 1 October 2012
New Pics & Video of Kristen at Balenciaga Dinner in Paris - September 27th
Kristen was spotted eating at La Fidelite in Paris this evening.
Sunday, 30 September 2012
Kristen Shows Enthusiasm For Balenciaga’s New Collection With Designer Nicolas Ghesquiere
The Balenciaga show was just over as Francois Pinault, the art patron and founder of PPR, slipped out of the backstage, past a throng of waiting guests. A sustained roar followed as the models, still in their outfits, clapped and cheered. Two, three minutes went by. Then a security guard ushered in the actress Kristen Stewart, dressed in scribble-print white jeans and a black tank top, a lime-yellow leather jacket slung over her shoulder, to have her moment with Nicolas Ghesquiere.
She talked and talked. As Mr. Ghesquiere listened, she worked her way from one outfit to the next, saying what she liked about it. She skipped nothing and her enthusiasm showed.
Kristen Talks to WWD at Balenciaga’s Spr2013 Show
Leaden skies over Paris greeted “Twilight” star Kristen Stewart as she arrived at this morning’s Balenciaga show. “Yeah, I guess I’m used to it,” she said with a smile.
The actress, who fronts Balenciaga’s Florabotanica scent, said she’s still hunting for her next film project, but if she had her druthers, it would be a screen adaptation of “Lie Down in Darkness,” a novel by William Styron about a dysfunctional family. “It’s hard to get a movie like that made nowadays,” said the petite star, dressed in a yellow biker jacket and printed black jeans.
Kristen Stewart in Balenciaga | Paris Fashion Week: Spring 2013 – Balenciaga
Photos: KStewartFans; Balenciaga; MyTheresa.comTo say social media was ‘buzzing’ bright and early today over Kristen Stewart sitting front row at the Balenciaga by Nicolas Ghesquière Spring 2013 fashion show would be a great understatement. In fact, the “Breaking Dawn” actress quickly became a trending topic on Twitter before the models were even off the catwalk!For her second appearance at a presentation for the fashion house (she was present for Fall 2012 back in March), the face of the “Florabotanica” fragrance brought some ‘flower power’ to Paris Fashion Week when she arrived wearing a pair of black ankle-zip pants with all-over chalky white bold stenciled floral prints.
Kristen at Balenciaga Spring/Summer 2013 Fashion Show at Paris Fashion Week – September 27
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Kristen at the Balenciaga show at Paris Fashion Week.
The Balenciaga show was just over as Francois Pinault, the art patron and founder of PPR, slipped out of the backstage, past a throng of waiting guests. A sustained roar followed as the models, still in their outfits, clapped and cheered. Two, three minutes went by. Then a security guard ushered in the actress Kristen Stewart, dressed in scribble-print white jeans and a black tank top, a lime-yellow leather jacket slung over her shoulder, to have her moment with Nicolas Ghesquiere.
She talked and talked. As Mr. Ghesquiere listened, she worked her way from one outfit to the next, saying what she liked about it. She skipped nothing and her enthusiasm showed.
(Source | Via)
Friday, 28 September 2012
Thursday, 27 September 2012
Nicolas Ghesquière Talks About Kristen with Holts Muse
HR: The campaign was shot by Steven Meisel and stars Twilight actress Kristen Stewart, why was she chosen to be the face of the fragrance?
Ghesquière: For me, Kristen Stewart has a very unique personality. I had this special project due for a magazine and I asked her to be a part of that story. That’s how we met. The moment I met her I thought she was so Balenciaga and she had such an interesting personality and a great beauty. I began wishing for her to be part of my story so I kept that in mind, and when we started working on this project, I knew it had to be her.
Complete interview at Source | Via | via
Kristen and Nicholas Ghesquire in Vogue Spain nº295
About Kristen Stewart and Charlotte Gainsbourg:
"Both are mysterious, and mystery provokes desire. Both choose very define artistic ways in which I recognize myself. And they feel in the same way with my fashion, so that way we can create a kind of creative dialogue."
Thanks to @LosingLovers | via
Monday, 24 September 2012
Kristen and Nicolas Ghesquière in Madame Figaro French Magazine - Interview + Scans
Between star actress and fashion designer prodigy, it was obvious. These two grow complicity based on agreements of head, heart and base … No wonder the artistic director of Balenciaga has chosen to embody the beautiful image Florabotanica, the new fragrance house. Confidence artists.
There is something terribly animal about this beautiful girl with green eyes and a deep voice, to whom the world belongs.
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