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Well, this was bound to happen eventually. Despite repeated warnings, someone has finally taken a massive gulp from the Kristen Stewart punch bowl and has decided to hire the sometime actress as the star of a campaign. But why did it have to be you, Nicolas Ghesquière? Why did it have to be you?
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At the glacial pace Bernard Arnault and co. are moving to replace John Galliano at Christian Dior, the ousted designer will have time to finish rehab, mount a comeback, and muck it all up again in another drunken, anti-Semitic tirade. The luxury brand has been in talks with Marc Jacobs for months, which have been less than smooth, but now it seems that Jacobs and Dior might be calling it quits.
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This morning editors came crashing to the floor at Balenciaga’s spring 2012 show thanks to some faulty chairs but on the bright side, everyone was already on their feet by the time Nicolas Ghesquière took his bow.
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The saga at Christian Dior continues as WWD reports that Marc Jacobs is in talks with Bernard Arnault and co. to take over the recently tumultuous couture house.
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-Supermodel of the world, Gisele Bündchen Brady, made Balenciaga‘s Nicolas Ghesquière change out the shoes in the Spring 2011 show because she was apparently “not used to walking with heels anymore.” Can’t walk in heels?! That’s like finding out Santa Claus doesn’t exist or Anna Wintour is actually human. 
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Although Balenciaga is ahead of the game when it comes to the art of fashion design, the luxury brand’s website dates back to the Paleolithic period. But that all changes this week when the French fashion house launches its brand new e-commerce website that boasts light text and heavy imagery.
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Nicolas Ghesquière will leapfrog over traditional fashion pubs by first debuting Balenciaga‘s Fall 2011 campaign on the brand’s revamped website, launching Monday.
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The fashion show has evolved from its earliest incarnations in the salons of department stores into the opulent, theatrical, exorbitant circuses they are now. Over the past ten years, especially, the fashion show has become a multi-media juggernaut, as crucial to a designer’s collections as the collection itself.
Along with its commercial peak, fashion shows have also reached their creative peaks – moving, visceral, dramatic productions that have elevated them into an art form. Alexander McQueen emerged as the true master of the genre, blending the disparate elements of entertainment and ideology while creating beautiful works of clothing that could stand on their own without the hype and hoopla with which he was so famously associated.
Below is a list of the 10 fashion shows that stand as the greatest achievements of the last decade, based on their technicality and theatricality, their influence on fashion and of course, the clothes themselves.
