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Balenciaga: Haute Tech
After a season of strikingly predictable fashion in Milan it was a real relief on Tuesday to witness in Paris the fall/winter 2005 collection of Balenciaga, whose creative director Nicolas Ghesquiere is surely one of the few genuinely original voices in fashion
22-Mar-2005 - Details

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What she wants
Balenciaga is the label worn by the women other women copy (think Kate Moss and Chloë Sevigny). And it's not hard to see why. Hadley Freeman meets Nicolas Ghesquière, the creative force behind a great fashion house
22-Mar-2005 - Details

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Cristobal Balenciaga - biography
It was once said, that when a woman wearing a Balenciaga gown walks into a room, there is no other woman there. His clothes were so elegant, grand and perfectly made, that he alone was known as "The Master".1885 Cristobal Balenciaga was born in Guetaria, Spain of humble parents. His father was a sailor, who died young. His mother was a dressmaker. His deftness and skill in making clothes was evident from a very early age
08-Mar-2005 - Details

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Balenciaga, Cristóbal - biography
The best known Spanish fashion designer, Cristóbal Balenciaga is regarded as the master of fashion. His classic designs inspired the fashion industry throughout most of the twentieth century and continue to exert influence
22-Mar-2005 - Details

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Who's WhoCristobal Balenciaga , Fashion Designer
Fashion Designer BALENCIAGA, date of creation: 1937 It is not surprising that Spain has produced a genius like BALENCIAGA, capable of the most daring innovations in a superbly classic style. What is surprising is that this Spaniard became the leading French fashion designer.
22-Mar-2005 - Details

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The House of Cristobal Balenciaga
The 'couturier of the couturiers', Cristobal Balenciaga, was originally Spanish. His mother was a tailor and Balenciaga started to interest himself at a very early age for needlework. In 1913, Balenciaga starts working for the royal Spanish studio in San Sebastiàn in Northern Spain. In 1919, he opens his own fashion house in San Sebastiàn and clothes the Spanish royal family. The opening of further fashion houses follow in Madrid in 1933 and in Barcelona in 1935. The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) forced him to flee to Paris
22-Mar-2005 - Details

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Balenciaga - official site
Balenciaga Fashion Show by Nicolas Ghesquière: collections, accessories, boutiques
22-Mar-2005 - Details

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Paris to Stage Major Balenciaga Retrospective
The city's Museum of Decorative Arts will stage a six-month-long show dedicated to the house founded by Cristobal Balenciaga seven decades ago.
19-Apr-2006 - Details

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Lets Play Balenciaga
As much as the French love fashion, soccer took precedence last week in Paris. Even at the fall 2006 haute couture fashion shows, talk inevitably turned to Zinédine Zidane, or "Zizou," France's World Cup star. Some editors went so far as to sport les bleus--the team's cobalt blue jerseys--in his honor
10-Jul-2006 - Details

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Fashion moment: Balenciaga
Famous names survive long after whatever it was that originally made them famous has been forgotten. How else do you explain fashion’s love affair with Cristobal Balenciaga? Few of those who trumpet his name have any idea why he is cited as the most influential couturier of the past 60 years.
24-Jul-2006 - Details