Balenciaga dresses> S/S 2008
Floral armour. Balenciaga’s dresses for this season are incredibly structured. They look like molded hard armor. When you see them on the runway, they have movement, more disjoint, unsmooth movement, but much more than what these ads with Jennifer Connelly suggest. She looks like a warrior with the shaped shoulders. The colors of this season are just as bold and strong as the structure of each piece.
How the clothes move–the pleats, folds and seams—it’s all incredibly dynamic. Models look like moving robots on the runway.
The clothes encase the body, like the shell of a snail or turtle. It highlights the incredible movement and life of the flesh it reveals.
View the Balenciaga S/S 2008 runway show.
