Originally published in the September/October 2015 issue of Robb Report Home & Style as “Some Like it Haute”

Between the clothes that fashion designers create and the environments they live in, there is little boundary. The Iberian opulence of Cristóbal Balenciaga’s home in Orléans, France, was of a piece with his intricately beaded toreador jackets. Looking at the 1954 “bubble dress” by Pierre Cardin, one sees why the avant-garde designer acquired the Antti Lovag–designed “Bubble Palace” property on the French Riviera. And Karl Lagerfeld’s black a…