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Were blacklisted. Its too bad, its a beautiful house and its French. I hope that its not forever.

From WWD. But no word on why.

Word on the street, or in the Tuileries, is that French Vogue was blacklisted from Balenciaga via Max Mara.

The magazines editor-in-chief, Carine Roitfeld, consults, or did consult, for the Italian brand. She allegedly asked Balenciaga for samples for an editorial shoot, and one of the coats ended up at Max Maras design studio where it was copied and then sent back to Paris.

Balenciagas notoriously strict with their samples almost everyone has to promise theyll shoot the head to toe runway look and samples are usually lent out for a day at a time and when the French label heard about Max Mara, they lost it.

If fashion were a monarchy, Carine would be our queen, so we hate to think she deliberately sent Max Mara the coat, but our sources say it was no mistake.

Via Fashionista

Wow. It would be difficult to view this incident to be deliberate since Carine Roitfeld is an obvious link to the sample unless she intended to keep some arrangement with Max Mara to keep things quiet. Then again, this isn't the first time for fashion espionage. It would be difficult for any high fashion house to exclude Vogue. They'll lose so much coverage and publicity.

There is no reason for that...

Wow that is totally insane......Its a bummer as well. I'd be pist too if someone didn't return one of my samples and it ended somewhere else. That's why you have to be on top of things, but this incident is very suspicious though. There might be something going on!!!!!

Oh I've seen this sort of deal. Never been a whistle blower about such matter because the people I use to work with would use under handed tactics and blame it on an innocent as a scapegoat.