Fashion & Style: Beautiful balloon; Even its designer admits it might not be the most flattering shape, but this dress is a puffball of power, says Susannah Frankel.(Features)

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: September 9, 2004| Author: Frankel, Susannah | Copyright information

Byline: Susannah Frankel

When Balenciaga designer Nicolas Ghesquiere visited the Cristobal Balenciaga archive while researching his autumn/ winter 2004 ready-to- wear collection he stumbled upon "this balloon dress from summer 1960". The French-born designer promptly took it back to his studio on Paris's Left Bank, showed it to his colleagues and "it soon became completely obvious that it was our shape of the season, something really of the moment. We liked this feeling ...

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