Balenciaga and His Legacy: Haute Couture from the Texas Fashion Collection

Born in 1895 in a remote fishing village in Spain, CristA?bal Balenciaga learned sewing and tailoring at his mother’s knee. By 1937, the talented and persistent young man had opened his own design salon in Paris, and in the years following World War II he emerged as a designer to be reckoned with in the world of haute couture. The House of Balenciaga grew to serve an international clientele from locations in Paris, Madrid, and Barcelona, and from 1937 to its closing in 1968 created some of the m...

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