Fashion's Ghesquiere to face ex-employer Balenciaga in court

For 15 years the collaboration appeared to be among the most harmonious in fashion, as designer Nicholas Ghesquiere breathed new life into the fabled fashion house Balenciaga. But next week, the prodigiously talented Ghesquiere and the company that chose him at the age of 26 to inherit

the Balenciaga throne will face each other across a Paris courtroom.

In a case that threatens to lift the lid on the relationship between two of the biggest names in fashion, Balenciaga