Balenciaga Questions XV

1. Balenciaga Fall/Winter 2011
2. Alexander Wang Fall/Winter 2012

The Balenciaga phenomenon has also reached and affected New York Fashion Week. Alexander Wang showed a collecton that didn't work with mirrored Balenciaga twin looks but an overall mood that felt very Ghesquière-esque. Brutalist shapes, stiff structures and complex panelling.
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Awareness Campaign

Top Alexander Wang Spring/Summer 2011
Bottom Unknown editorial, Smoking spoils your looks

As a non-smoker myself, I can speak with pure conscience and vehemently support a crispy clean 'all white, no nicotine' policy. So does Alexander Wang who banned and quoted the cigarette as hair clip.
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Profanity II

Alexander Wang Fall/Winter 2010

12 hours later in full beauty. I must say I am convinced.
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Profanity

Alexander Wang Fall/Winter 2010

Just 5 minutes later. Life stream screen shots and my BBM commentary: Velvet. Bra cutouts. Black. Backpacks. Quite Prada-ish. Sunglasses worn over hair on sides. Styling is excellent. Seriously. Silver pearls in narrow geometric lines. Really good I have to admit.
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The Wang Hat

Alexander Wang Fall/Winter 2009

I definitely like it better on guys. Or maybe just this particular one. Or maybe no hat and nothing else. Or or or...
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L'Adrénaline

Hussein Chalayan: Amazing overknee leather strap boots, plastic corsets, cropped tuxedos, paper dresses, pure constructivism and perfection. I found love.
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Never Too Late

Alexander Wang Fall/Winter 2009

This is it. Bra wonders. Linear shapes. Swallowed blackness. Textile wires. Square cutouts. Contemporary bondage. Please continue...
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Release Your Inner Death

Fashion Jean Phillip, Acne Jeans, Antipodium, Nakkna, René Gurskov, Sequel, Whyred, Alexander Wang.

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