attention Exit #2 from the fall runway collection, a dress that also received tons of editorial attention. With sleeves reduced to seductive armbands, a deep slit up the left leg, and planes of stiff black fabric intersecting across the front, the dress has a very modern look. I was curious to see and touch it. Owning the dress wasn’t necessarily the objective. We see a lot of great fashion on the runways, but as I’ve pointed out here and in several columns recently, we seemed to see less and less of these clothes in the stores. (Indeed, I interviewed Balenciaga’s president Isabelle Guichot, among other chief executives, about this widening gap.) What we mostly see are pre-season collections, which stores like because the clothes arrive early in the season and have a longer selling time at full price than the runway pieces, which tend arrive later..
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