Madame Figaro:
Between the actress star and the fashion designer, it was an obvious
fact. They both cultivate a complicity based on agreements of head,
heart and bottom... It is not amazing that the art director of
Balenciaga chose the beautiful to embody the image of Floridablanca, the
new flavor of the brand. Artists' confidences.
We meet Kristen Stewart before the "scandal" which fed the international
press celebrity all summer long. It is to say the ridiculous Puritanism
which reigns in the United States, where, in 2012, the whim of a
22-year-old kid can be again set up as deadly sin and lead to an
excommunication deserving of the scarlet letter. The earth will continue
nontheless to turn. Hollywood will pass in the other thing and beauty
queen Stewart will probably get back into the good graces before long.
Because everything smiles to this bright actress, to the happy mortuary
and to the underlined charisma: last June, she took the head of the
Forbes ranking of the ten American the best paid actresses (27 million
euro approximately for the past year). There is something of terribly
animal at this beautiful girl with the green eyes and with the deep
voice, to whom the world belongs. Her look did not escape Nicolas
Ghesquière, very sharp art director of Balenciaga, who has a sound to
spot the atypical or the rebels (Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jennifer
Connelly) and chose Stewart as muse of his new woman perfume,
Florabotanica, a given name which makes reference to the botanical
gardens of the XVIIIth century in which the rarest and the most exotic
botanical species lived. Where from the concept of a heady garden,
alternately enchanted or poisonous, in which princess Kristen would get
lost. Interview in two voices.
Madame Figaro. - Do you remember your first meeting?
Kristen Stewart. - I remember it as if it was yesterday: it was on a
photoshot for a magazine, with Bruce Weber, I was quite young, I had to
be 14 or 15 years old. I was kind of used to photography sessions, but
that does not mean I was in my element. It was the first time I crossed
the path of Nicolas and when I identified clearly the brand, Balenciaga.
I had the intuition that we would see again each other. At that time, I
knew nothing about fashion: at least, people are capable of quoting
Chanel; me, no, absolutely nothing. I was intimidated enough, I was
neither a model nor a known actress, and I was there, in the center of
the fashion world. We could feel on set a so contagious energy that I
was seized, an energy comparable to the one who makes me like the
cinema. Today that I know better this world, I assure you that we can
easily make the difference between those who create because they are
carried by an internal necessity, and the others, the followers. Nicolas
is a member of the first category, he is extraordinarily invested. It
is an obvious fact: there is only to see as his face gets clearer when
he looks at a garment. A light emanates from him.
Nicolas Ghesquière. - The ideal, it is when clothes are embodied. When
Kristen wears one of my creations, I clearly see that she takes it up
and that then everything makes sense. When I saw her the first time, I
knew immediately that she and I would share something. It was
indistinct, but I was sure of that. I urged to see her again and I began
to send her signals: can we dress her? Would she agree to see the
current collection? It was the beginning of our dialogue.
Weiter geht's nach dem
*KLICK*.
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