Paris Fashion Week Spring 2009: Balmain

Barbie-doll proportions and a lot of glitter and glitz added a bit of whimsy to the very polished, stylish look of Balmain’s spring 2009 collection. If Max Azria wants to see a new way to do a bandage dress, this is where he should look. There were lots of legs – in micro minis as well as cutaway front dresses that would have been more surprsing if Balmain had shown before Nina Ricci. Olivier Theyskens did them a bit bigger and better, but Balmain’s had a glamorous aesthetic of their own.