November, 6th, 2012

Paris – Milan | Lundi. N5.

If John Galliano become Balenciaga’s, PPR vs LVMH will be epic. Nicolas Ghesquière 15-year tenure was ended today, Lundi. November 5. He diligently did internships during his school holidays. At 14, he got an internship with French designer agnès b for which he was paid in clothes. His next apprenticeship was with Corinne Cobson, afterwards he decided that fashion was too hard work and came home to finish his schooling.

After completing his studies, Nicolas worked from 1990–1992 as an assistant to designer Jean-Paul Gaultier. He then worked at Pôles, designing their knit wear line followed by a series of inauspicious assignments with different companies including the Italian house of Callaghan.

Through his contacts with Marie-Amélie Sauve and Nathalie Marrec, of Balenciaga, Ghesquière eventually landed a job doing the licensing for Balenciaga and designing for the Asian market. It was from there that he was plucked to be the new designer for the house, which had limited success since the 1970s (the label’s founder, Cristóbal Balenciaga, died in 1972). Ghesquière held, as he then described it, “ what many would call the worst position in fashion”: designing suits and funeral clothes under a Balenciaga licence for Japan.

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