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Balenciaga
Balenciaga
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Last copy!
Author: Lesley Ellis Miller Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum Format: Softcover # of Pages: 128 Pub. Date: 2007 ISBN-10: 1851775226 ISBN-13: 9781851775224
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About
the Book:
HARD TO FIND BOOK, only a very limited
number of copies are still available.
More than three decades after his death, the Spanish couturier
Cristobal Balenciaga has become a legendary figure in the history of
20th century fashion. His name still resonates in the world of
international fashion as a byword for clothes executed to the highest
standards and characterized by their sculptural quality, deft
manipulation of textiles, and dramatic use of colour.
His innovative
designs were made-to-measure for private clients and sold as
prototypes to department stores across the world. He launched these
designs at the haute couture shows in Paris from the time of his
establishment there in 1937 until his retirement in 1968. Notoriously
reclusive and obsessively private, Cristobal Balenciaga (1895-1972)
never gave interviews, but this book by Lesley Ellis Miller
examines Balenciaga's design and business practice, placing him
firmly in the context of the time and country in which he learnt his
trade and the international fashion scene in which he subsequently
matured and triumphed.
This book, with breathtaking illustrations,
was issued by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London to coincide
with its Golden Age of Couture exhibition celebrating Balenciaga's
achievements.
What people say:
"Balenciaga is
fashion's Picasso." — Fashion
photographer Sir
Cecil Beaton
About the Author:
Lesley Ellis Miller is Senior
Curator of Textiles and Fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum and
Professor of Dress and Textile History at the University of Glasgow.
She is a specialist in eighteenth-century European fashion and
textiles, on which she has published extensively.
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