Nicolas Ghesquiere talks about Kristen

Question: Kristen Stewart just said, you like swimming in rough waters, but Louis Vuitton seems more like a luxurious ocean..

Nicolas: (laughs) Oh LV is an ocean! A beautiful ocean. I like Kristen so much, she is very special and so brave. We share the same attitude, we like taking risks and doing nice stuff at the same time.

Source Translation Via Via thank you.

New/old interview for Balenciaga Florabotanica with Savoir Flair

We spoke to Kristen Stewart about becoming the face of the Florabotanica Balenciaga fragrance and working with Nicolas Ghesquière.

Kristen Stewart might be best known for her role as Bella in the Twilight series, but her vitae speaks to her many acting accomplishments. She’s been Joan Jett and Marylou, but, to designer Nicolas Ghesquière, she is also the quintessential Balenciaga girl. Recently tapped to be the face of the Florabotanica Balenciaga fragrance, Stewart has gotten to spend time with one of her favorite brands and designers, and has worked hard to understand the essence of the Balenciaga name. She is nothing if not a thoughtful and intelligent young woman – a fact that becomes radiantly clear in this interview. When asked what she identified with most in Balenciaga, Stewart responded, “Honestly it is evocative. It makes you think. It always strikes a perfect balance between elegance and modernity or represents a stark version of either – which I love. The brand, because of its sense of very unexpected creativity, manages to really lead the way while remaining very true to its artistic initiative. I love the fact that wearing Balenciaga makes you feel unique.” For fans of the brand, it’s clear to see that she nails its ethos.

Beyond understanding Balenciaga, Stewart understands how she fits into the framework; “I recognize myself when I wear it, which is important,” she shares. The Florabotanica fragrance, which she describes as “refined yet assertive”, embodies the youthful exuberance of Stewart herself. “The fragrance is everything I like,” she describes, “it is natural, feminine, and original – three things I value very much.” For Stewart, working with a brand she admires and a fragrance she loves is an “honor”, and so is it to work with Nicolas Ghesquière. “Nicolas has a creative energy that is undeniably magnetic and very igniting, utterly contagious and inspiring. Being around Nicolas in his element is one of my most valued experiences. He is such a sweet person, so professional, and one of my all-time favorite artists. It was a very nice experience.”

For the Florabotanica advertising campaign, shot by Steven Meisel, Ghesquière envisioned a “strange garden”, one that was filled with plants both good and evil. At the center of this exotic landscape he places Kristen Stewart, whom he felt embodied all aspects of Balenciaga from its classicism to its experimental nature. It’s rare that the marriage of celebrity and product is this successful on so many levels. From Stewart’s unbridled enthusiasm for the fragrance and the brand to the transmission of the brand’s codes via the young actress, the pairing of Stewart and Balenciaga make for the perfect match


Source via itsoktobeyou.org thank you.

Nicolas Ghesquiere mentions Kristen in 032c Magazine + new quotes from Kristen

Photo Source

Ghesquiere's farewell collection, Spring/Summer 2013, evoked strong reactions all around and for good reason. Members of the close-knit creative team at Balenciaga say it is one of the most technically proficient and sensual. Like many of the dedicated designers who strongly identify with their former creative director, firebrand actress Kristen Stewart knows a fellow renegade when she meets one; Stewart, an ambassador for the brand's second new fragrance Florabotanica admires Ghesquiere. She wore the opening look from Spring/Summer 2013 to the LA premiere of 'On the Road', days after PPR's fateful announcement.

Unhampered and lively on the phone, she sketched a portrait of Ghesquiere worthy of the beatniks: "He is a reminder of how fucking annoying everyone else is. It's not easy to walk a line that not every single person in the world is going to get in a second. Nicolas is the sort of person who loves swimming in rough water." Stewart's vision of Ghesquiere, which she has gleaned from engagements like a joint appearance at the 2012 Costume Institute Gala, is as infectious as it is insightful.

"He's most comfortable when he's terrified," she tells me about her exchange with Ghesquiere backstage at what was to be his last trip down the runway for Balenciaga, "I was like 'Dude, are you okay?" and he was like (in a French accent), 'Yes. Yes. I will tell you soon, but there are things happening.' Before I left, he was like, 'All right, I'll tell you.' I'm so fucking proud of him because what he was about to do would rock people's worlds. He was just like ' Believe for me.' I thought it was the coolest fucking thing."

"I've felt the happiest I've ever felt wearing these clothes. I've also felt androgynous and rigid. Sort of like you're wearing a fucking building," says Kristen Stewart. Thanks to Ghesquiere, Stewart has learned that fashion doesn't necessarily conceal like a mask but can spark aspects of one's personality that are otherwise sedated: "You can play any character you can imagine in these clothes."

"I just don't want him to have his hands stuffed in his pockets, sitting down like he's resting from a fight. No, I think it should be his fucking thing. I mean if you're going to do it, do it young. Don't add on to someone else's life."

Nicolas mentions Kristen:

Florabotanica was the second fragrance and with this one I asked them to name the target: They said, "It has to be very young and to relate to your fashion, Ghesquiere for Balenciaga." I met Kristen Stewart on a Bruce Weber shooting when was 13 years old and we got along well. I loved her. A few years ago I did her dress for the Twilight (2008) premiere. We weren't friends, but we had a connection. She's perfect for Balenciaga if you want a younger audience, I told them. She's totally sensual and sexy but she's tomboyish. She's not afraid to be popular, even commerical but she's also punk."

Previously posted article from the NYMag on this issue, can be read here.

This from the current issue of 032c magazine, issue no. 24 - Berlin Summer 2013.

Scans thanks to @Mel452
Transcript by TeamKristenSite

Kristen quoted in 032c magazine talking about Nicolas Ghesquière

German magazine 032c has devoted its cover and 38 pages of its summer issue to former Balenciaga designer Nicolas Ghesquière, calling the feature a “monument” to Ghesquière’s final spring 2013 season. It's a hefty tribute indeed: There's a thirteen-page Q&A between the designer and Pierre Alexandre de Looz, a fashion editorial starring Ghesquière muse Charlotte Gainsbourg and styled by Marie Amélie Sauvé, and a meaty story by De Looz about Ghesquière's fifteen-year tenure at the house, bolstered with reverent quotes from major industry figures like Grace Coddington, Eric Wilson, and Hamish Bowles. It's a long read, to say the least, but full of interesting tidbits about Ghesquière's ideas and the history of Balenciaga.

Kristen is quoted in the magazine talking about Nicolas:

He is a reminder of how fucking annoying everyone else is. It’s not easy to walk a line that not every single person in the world is going to get in a second. Nicolas is the sort of person who loves swimming in rough water ...

I’ve felt the happiest I’ve ever felt wearing these clothes. I’ve also felt androgynous and rigid. Sort of like you’re wearing a fucking building.

She also recalls the moment after his final collection for Balenciaga, when he told her he was leaving the house:

I was like, ‘Dude, are you okay?’ and he was like (in a French accent), ‘Yes. Yes. I will tell you soon, but there are things happening.’ Before I left, he was like, ‘All right, I'll tell you.’ I’m so fucking proud of him because what he was about to do would rock people’s worlds. He was just like, ‘Believe for me.’ I thought it was the coolest fucking thing.

The look on his face after that show, he had this look like he was actually the kid who was being told he wasn't allowed to do something. And he was totally not going to stand for it, and I was like, 'I will totally run away with you.'

Source via @KstewAngel thank you.

Kristen to Attend Met Gala May 6th in NYC

@jimshi809 #KristenStewart attending May 6th #MetGala. Will she wear Nicolas Ghesquière?

@jimshi809 Nicolas Ghesquière is also attending the #MetGala, so perhaps he'll be #KStew's date?

@jimshi809 Et voilà, the invitation to the 2013 #MetGala. #punk #couture #Givenchy #CostumeInstituteGala 

Livestreams start at 7.00pm (ET) per Met Museum:

1. Met Museum 

2. Samsung

3. Modaoperandi

4. Vogue
5. Direct Vogue Livestream (via @Gossipgyal)

All live streams will be showing the same view.

Check the world clock for your local time.

For more details on the Met Gala this year, check out the official site here.

Kristen talks about Balenciaga & Nicolas Ghesquière (USAToday)

"I've had four excursions through the store. Isn't that a little bit mind-blowing? It's so weird walking out with that. I walk around with my hands in my pockets," says Stewart, miming herself pointing to things. "I like that. I like that too. I've been so (expletive) lucky."

She's a big fan of creative director Nicolas Ghesquière, who's parted ways with the brand and was replaced by Alexander Wang.

"I'm so not the type of person who'd be into selling a brand. He is one of the only guys I'd do that with. I don't carry bags very often," says Stewart, referring to Ghesquière.

Source via @malenacasey thank you.

Nicolas Guesquière mentions Kristen in Le Figaro (France)

Finally, there is Kristen, heroine of this new olfactory opus (and American tabloids this summer because of her tumultuous love affairs). After Charlotte Gainsbourg, national treasure, one wonders about the Atlanticist choices. We had read a few years ago, a great interview with Guesquière by Tom Ford where the creator, leader of the new French department, took his distances with his origins saying that he was finding an inspiration and a strong dialogue with the Americans.

"Charismatic ambassador"

"I live in France and I am very attached to our heritage, cut short the designer. But I love borrowing things from other cultures, explore new territories. Regarding Kristen, though american, she does not match the pictures that we can make. her nationality did not determine my choice. I remember the first time I saw her in Panic Room, where at the age of twelve, she burst on the screen. later, during a photo shoot with Bruce weber for Interview magazine, I was curious to see what she had become. We shot in the former residence of Warhol in Montauk. She was already a young girl: I had a real aesthetic shock."

On the red carpet, before the contract for the perfume, the actress is considered one of the most charismatic ambassadors of Balenciaga. "But I did not consider the size of Kristen. It's amazing what she generates, the fascination she exerts on her generation."


Scans and translation, thanks to itsoktobeyou.org

Kristen & Nicolas Ghesquiére's interview with Vanity Fair (Italy)

I’ve never seen a muse so into her role and an artist so inspired. The dangerous relationship between Kristen Stewart and Nicolas Ghesquiére, started for pure interest, as often happens between an Hollywood actress and a successful designer.. “it could have left no trace on me, instead it changed my life”, Kristen tells to Vanity Fair, in a suite at the Bristol Hotel in Paris, looking at Nicolas.

How did you meet each other?

K: I accepted this collaboration, following my instinct, as I always do. Then he got me involved completely. I forgot that I was american, 22, and I found another world and culture; I started dreaming and I felt my body changing: I was becoming a real woman, in the capable hands of someone that guided me.

N: I didn’t want to do a “masquerade”, I wanted her, flesh and blood, with all the emotional baggage that I could get from her. I wanted her to be a “femme” and bold in her choices.

Kristen Stewart succeeded to Charlotte Gainsbourg, as “égérie” of the Balenciaga fragrances. Why do you always choose these kind of women, with an unconventional femininity, slim and without the conventionally classic body?

N: Charlotte and Kristen are perfect for my creations, powerful muses that aren’t afraid of anything.

K: It’s true that I’m not a safe-kind of girl, nor constant and certainly I don’t like to take the easy way. I like challenges that create the right energy for perfect interactions. I’m pathologically curious, I’m attracted to anything that is different.

In what is different Nicolas?

K: I grew up in a simple family, while he was born with that “elegance” that has always been part of him. Through our collaboration, I learned many things about my seduction power and more importantly about the importance of the right fragrance or dress, to point out certain parts of myself.

and you Nicolas, what about Kristen attracted you the most?

N: A creator is like a prince charming, in perpetual search of his dream princess, that is able to inspire his creative fantasies. Kristen was perfect for it. I created Florabotanica for her and her presence was essential for many other creative processes.

What did this experience leave you?

K: I considered Florabotanica kind of a passport for the adulthood, where women can seduce for real.

Via: team-kbitch @winnie_is kstewartnews
Thank you.

Kristen in Marie Claire magazine - November 2012

Scans thanks to @malenacasey

Better quality scans from Vogue (Spain October 2012

Thanks to kstewartfans

Photo of Kristen with Nicolas Ghesquiere backstage at Balenciaga PFW

Source via @amora_rk via itsoktobeyou thank you.

Kristen talks about her enthusiasm for Balenciaga's collection (NYTimes)

The Balenciaga show was just over as Francois Pinault, the art patron and founder of PPR, slipped out of the backstage, past a throng of waiting guests. A sustained roar followed as the models, still in their outfits, clapped and cheered. Two, three minutes went by. Then a security guard ushered in the actress Kristen Stewart, dressed in scribble-print white jeans and a black tank top, a lime-yellow leather jacket slung over her shoulder, to have her moment with Nicolas Ghesquiere.

She talked and talked. As Mr. Ghesquiere listened, she worked her way from one outfit to the next, saying what she liked about it. She skipped nothing and her enthusiasm showed.

Source via kstewartnews thank you.

Nicolas Ghesquière mentions Kristen (Holtsmuse)

HR: The campaign was shot by Steven Meisel and stars Twilight actress Kristen Stewart, why was she chosen to be the face of the fragrance?

Ghesquière: For me, Kristen Stewart has a very unique personality. I had this special project due for a magazine and I asked her to be a part of that story. That’s how we met. The moment I met her I thought she was so Balenciaga and she had such an interesting personality and a great beauty. I began wishing for her to be part of my story so I kept that in mind, and when we started working on this project, I knew it had to be her.

Source via @KstewAngel thank you.

Nicolas Ghesquière mentions Kristen in Vogue Spain

Nicolas Ghesquière about Kristen Stewart and Charlotte Gainsbourg:

"Both are mysterious, and mystery provokes desire. Both choose very define artistic ways in which I recognize myself. And they feel in the same way with my fashion, so that way we can create a kind of creative dialogue."

Source @LosingLovers via @Alice_InTwiLand via itsoktobeyou.org thank you.

Scans: Kristen in Teen Vogue - October 2012

Click on each HQ scan to read the interview. 

Source SupermodelScans thank you. :)

New photo of Kristen & Nicolas Ghesquiere for Balenciaga

Source via @mandytav via kstewartfans thank you. 

Nicolas Ghesquière talks about Balenciaga's Florabotanica & Kristen

Coty Prestige has unveiled the new feminine fragrance from the house of Balenciaga. Florabotanica, which is fronted by actress Kristen Stewart, will be available in travel retail worldwide from October.

The edp scent is said to combine the fantastical and ultra-contemporary aspects of the Balenciaga brand. “There is a real duality in Balenciaga, between classicism and experimentation,” noted Creative Director Nicolas Ghesquière. “For this new fragrance, I wanted to explore this paradox between the pure and the enigmatic further. A few years ago, I designed this ‘floral collection’. The dresses were covered with flowers, but these flowers were neither charming nor romantic. They structured the whole silhouette. I wanted the flowers in this perfume to express the same idea.”


The name Florabotanica references the 18th century botanical gardens in which the most exotic and rarest plant species were displayed. “It is a secret garden where you find surprising flowers that surpass the imagination,” Ghesquière explained. “They are beautiful but are they really that harmless? Flowers can be cruel, carnivorous or venomous, contain poisons. What would a perfume that contained the charm and mystery of flowers be like? This is the story that we wanted to tell with Florabotanica.”

The juice, composed by Olivier Polge and Jean-Christophe Hérault, features two key accords. The vetiver, amber and caladium leaf accord aims to evoke a resonance of mossy and mysterious dark wood, according to the brand. The rose, carnation and mint accord delivers exhilaration and a juvenile freshness. The rose in question is a hybrid, experimental rose, with its origins in Turkey, to which a formula of “psychosensory plants” has been added.

The fragrance face is actress Kristen Stewart, best known for her role in the blockbuster Twilight saga. Balenciaga chose her for her tetchy youthfulness and rebellious femininity.

“Kristen Stewart has a real personality,” noted Ghesquière. “She captivated me when we met a few years ago. I had not forgotten her. She is the perfect embodiment of a certain idea of Balenciaga: that beauty that is both pure and uncontrollable. We met again for Florabotanica. She is totally this graceful and mysterious figure that symbolises this strange botanical garden.”

The fragrance flacon features graphic black and white stripes, as favoured by Cristóbal Balenciaga. An oversized tube plunges into the middle of the bottle in the style of a laboratory test tube.

Source via @KstewAngel thank you. :)