An ode to Cristóbal Balenciaga's greatest creations, as seen in the pages of Vogue.
“Balenciaga’s New Volume: This is Balenciaga’s barrel line in its simplest form. Volume rounded in at the hips, curved up at the front. The fleece, emerald green with such a sheen that it radiates jewel-like lights. Balenciaga handling: stark skirt, bare neck, velvet toque with ostrich poufs.”“The master of us all,” is how Christian Dior described Cristóbal Balenciaga. Before he became a posthumous legend he was a living one.
,” made clear the influence of painters like Diego Velázquez, Francisco Goya, and El Greco on the designer. Balenciaga, who was raised in the small seaside village of Getaria, the son of a fisherman and a seamstress, first encountered these works at the homes of the wealthy and aristocratic women for whom his mother worked and who would later become his clients.
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