Balenciaga

2008 | Best Non-Art in Chelsea Art District

Tell the truth: Wouldn't you rather contemplate a pullover than a painting? Why look at sculpture when you can look at skirts? On West 22nd Street, home to some of the city's most well-respected art galleries, there are two wonderfully nutty, albeit really expensive clothing shops (well, art ain't that cheap either): Comme des Garçons, with its utterly distinctive, oddly frayed, wildly tailored confections, and Balenciaga, where the crazy imagination of its wild-child designer, Nicola... More »