After visiting a costume design studio in Manhattan for class this morning I decided to take advantage of my close proximity to Balenciaga (I was already on West 22nd St.) and just go. I got there just before the doors opened at 11 AM and waited at the door with a Parson's student who was carrying the same bag as myself (a black Work). I looked at all the clothing and then tried a bunch of bags including a black Weekender, men's (pewter hardware) ink Weekender, Turquoise GGH Weekender, argent Weekender, ruby Work, and saddle Work. The SA was mostly unfamiliar with the colors and tried to pass off Saddle as Sienna and Argent as Sandstone. I corrected her a few times; I think she got a little angry at me. After that I tried on some of the booties from the fall collection. Apparently their shoes run extremely small and I'm a size 40 there compared to my usual 38.5. Then I tried on the lamb's leg sleeve jacket from the fall show in black, a partially quilted leather jacket, and a really bad ass vest. It was heaven. EDIT: I also tried the black croc weekender which was not really special at all. It was stiff and boring.. not really worth $28k.
OOOOH. There was a HUGE detail I left out. I went with a girl that's in my class who happens to own TWO Bal fakes that she says are real. Today she was carrying her fake GGH anthra brief with one of the studs missing. I didn't know whether or not to warn her before we went in and wound up saying nothing to avoid being rude - and in the store I did my best to look like I didn't know her well. Anyways, she wound up sitting next to me while one of the SAs got all the bags I asked for. Oddly enough, the SAs didn't say anything to her or give her any dirty looks.. they didn't seem to notice!!
I think both Daphne and Kim were there. The woman who helped me with bags was pregnant (I think). The none pregnant of the two had a semi mohawk thing (it was cute) and was wearing the flat studded gladiator sandals (gorgeous!).
The lamb's leg sleeve jacket I tried on. The shape isn't extremely flattering, but it's so different and beautiful.
The SHOES I tried on.
The leather jacket I tried on. I'm a size 0/27 in jeans - I'm TINY - and could not zip this up.
OOOOH. There was a HUGE detail I left out. I went with a girl that's in my class who happens to own TWO Bal fakes that she says are real. Today she was carrying her fake GGH anthra brief with one of the studs missing. I didn't know whether or not to warn her before we went in and wound up saying nothing to avoid being rude - and in the store I did my best to look like I didn't know her well. Anyways, she wound up sitting next to me while one of the SAs got all the bags I asked for. Oddly enough, the SAs didn't say anything to her or give her any dirty looks.. they didn't seem to notice!!
I think both Daphne and Kim were there. The woman who helped me with bags was pregnant (I think). The none pregnant of the two had a semi mohawk thing (it was cute) and was wearing the flat studded gladiator sandals (gorgeous!).
The lamb's leg sleeve jacket I tried on. The shape isn't extremely flattering, but it's so different and beautiful.
The SHOES I tried on.
The leather jacket I tried on. I'm a size 0/27 in jeans - I'm TINY - and could not zip this up.
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I was actually hoping the SAs would say something (or better yet, confiscate it) because this girl is either extremely naive or straight up lying to everyone. I think she's lying because she started talking about the season of her bags and how they soften up after she listened to the conversations going on between myself and other customers and the SAs. But yeah, the jackets there always have the most flatteringly fitted shoulders and narrow sleeves. The jackets are usually boyish, which would be great for me if I wasn't a poor college student.
