At the latest women’s ready-to-wear collection from Balenciaga, unveiled Thursday morning, Oct. 1, in Paris, the mood was futuristic, though with clothes that somehow seem pulled out of the earth.This was a highly decorative collection, cut with a stark symmetry, where the contrast between hard colors like blood oranges or painterly reds with soft grays, white woven leather and plastic tops was elegant and very new.

“I wanted to go back to the graphic ideas that are part of Balenciaga,” said Ghesquiere backstage. “It’s true that I was trying something similar three or four years ago, but this time, [it's] a little softer.” A faint sense of the prehistoric also wafted through the show, from the reptilian teeth shaped baubles used on bracelets to animal skin platform shoes. ‘Luxury [today] doesn’t mean anything, except in the quality of execution,’ Ghesquière once said and this collection clearly proved that point. -WWD

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