February 6, 2008

Balenciaga’s Art-Inspired Boutique Opens in London

by Orli Sharaby

Balenciaga designer Nicholas Ghesquière has collaborated once again with French artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and lighting designer Benoit Lalloz to open up the latest Balenciaga boutique, this time in London on Mount St. The prim and proper exterior belies the poppy, sci-fi inspired interior of the boutique — kind of like Balenciaga’s clothes themselves, which always seem to surprise in the most beautiful and intellectual sort of way.

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