Cristóbal Balenciaga
(born Jan. 21, 1895, Guetaria, Spain—died March 23, 1972, Valencia) Spanish-French fashion designer. He studied dressmaking as a child and was inspired to become a couturier by a visit to Paris. By age 20 he had his own firm in San Sebastián. Over the next 15 years Balenciaga became the leading couturier of Spain. In 1937, when the Spanish Civil War disrupted his business, he moved to Paris. For the next 30 years his collections featured sumptuously elegant dresses and suits. Balenciaga helped popularize the trend toward capes and flowing clothes without waistlines in the late 1950s as well as the use of plastic for rainwear in the mid 1960s. He retired in 1968.For more information on Balenciaga, Cristóbal, visit Britannica.com.
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Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 7/5/2005; ; 288 words
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; ...without even the archives of the great Spanish designer Cristobal Balenciaga, who died in 1972, at his disposal. On Friday, as Ghesquiere...therefore, Ghesquiere's future. ''My relationship with Cristobal Balenciaga is not as a heritage, but as a way of looking at his...
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; ...fashion editor with Harper's Bazaar from 1937 (the year Cristobal Balenciaga founded his couture house) to 1962, once described Balenciaga...ere's not a designer in the world who isn't in awe of what Cristobal Balenciaga did in terms of taking risks, and in terms of cut, volume...
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Fashion conference honors industry legends.(Conference news)
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; ...this page). The back-to-back sessions paid homage to Cristobal Balenciaga, Christian Dior, Coco Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent and...proportion, Golbin said in her presentation, quoting the late Cristobal Balenciaga. She called Balenciaga a perfectionist of all things...
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WHO'S NUMBER ONE? IT'S A REAL LOVE FEST -- DESIGNERS LAVISH PRAISE ON THEIR PEERS.
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Balenciaga: then & now.
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Balenciaga at FIT. (Fashion Institute of Technology, Cristobal Balenciaga)
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Cristóbal Balenciaga
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...gazar, a heavily sized loosely woven silk. Bibliography: See biography by L. E. Miller (1993, repr. 2007); memoir by M.-A. Jouve (1989, repr. 2004); P. Golbin and F. Baron, Balenciaga Paris (2006), and M. Walker, Balenciaga and His Legacy (2006).
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André Courrèges
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Diana Vreeland
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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