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Nicolas Ghesquière uses each new store to expand the Balenciaga universe beyond must-have bags. Lynn Yaeger gets a guided tour. BEYOND BALENCIAGA PORTRAIT BY STEVEN MEISEL outsize ribbons of fake leather. But what you may not realize—besotted as you are by the iconic fringed biker handbags in colors you don't yet have—is that the shop's interior, in common with the interiors of all of the Balenciaga outposts, is designed by Balenciaga's Nicolas Ghesquière in collaboration with his great pal, the contemporary artist Dominique Gonzalez Foerster. Ghesquière's fascination with art and design appears to rival his enthusiasm for fashion. "It happened very naturally," he says of his partnership with W 36 BAL HARBOUR hen you enter the new Balenciaga boutique in Bal Harbour, a jewel box of 1,000 square feet, it brims with the highlights of the label's fall 2011 collection—midcalf floral skirts that manage to both be floating and slender, abbreviated jackets knitted from