Balenciaga

Balenciaga

Balenciaga is a fashion house founded by Cristóbal Balenciaga, a Spanish designer. The new creative director Nicolas Ghesquiere has re-energized the Balenciaga collection.

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For the holidays this year- get yourself a Balenciaga bag . It is an instant classic that will last for years to come. Celebrities like Kate Moss, Nicole Richie, Mary Kate Olsen, Lauren Conrad, and Kim Kardashian love their Balenciaga mid city bags and hobo bags and they are amazing. Why wouldn't you want one? The leather is amazing, the style is edgy and now the style is considered a classic. So it is worth it right? At a retail price of $1,795 plus tax it is a little high, however I found a few options for you. Click the links below for some ... Read Full Story
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The Balenciaga fashion handbag line has a long history. In 1915 the young Spanish designer Cristobal Balenciaga began designing fine fashions for some of the most notable women of the ear, including the Duchess of Windsor and the Princess of Monaco. Read Full Story
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A guru of designs, a messiah of fashion, a man of revolutionary ideas and style. Nicolas Ghesquiere has been taking the world by storm since the mid nineties with his innovative taste for clothing . Dressing high class celebrities, rockers, and the like minded fashionistas of the world has been Nicolas’ expertise. Designing, however, has been a love of his since he was eleven. His signature silhouette consists of skinny pants with well tailored jackets and his color choice is most often black, white, and cream. Despite the thirty five year old’s eminent success, Ghesquiere has, for the last thirteen years, chosen to work ... Read Full Story
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Celebrities like Jennifer Lopez, Khloe Kardashian, Nicole Richie, and Kim Kardashian are bringing back color for their Balenciaga bags. Jennifer is loving her white Balenciaga bag in front of the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills and rocking her light blue Balenciaga work bag in front of a New York City hotel. Khloe Kardashian loves her apple green Balenciaga city bag and Kim Kardashian loves her giant hardware grey Balenciaga city bag . Last but not least, Nicole Richie who loves Balenciaga bags was seen recently with an ink blue Balenciaga motorcycle bag. If you want Kim Kardashian's giant hardware city bag in black, click ... Read Full Story
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This holiday season instead of getting that special someone a couple of things you are not sure about...how about just getting her that ONE thing she really wants. More than likely she wants some sort of designer bag for Christmas or Hanukkah. How about just getting her that one thing and you will have a very happy person in your company for the rest of the holidays. One of my favorites this season is the Balenciaga Giant Day Bag . Sarah Michelle Gellar has been carrying a version of the Balenciaga Giant Day Bag around in a gray color. I found the Balenciaga Giant ... Read Full Story
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Cristóbal Balenciaga opened his first boutique in San Sebastián, Spain, in 1914, which expanded to include branches in Madrid and Barcelona. The Spanish royal family and the aristocracy wore his designs, but when the Spanish Civil War forced him to close his stores, Balenciaga moved to Paris.



Balenciaga opened his Paris couture house on Avenue George V in August 1937, and his first runway show featured designs heavily influenced by the Spanish Renaissance. Balenciaga's success in Paris was nearly immediate. Within two years, the French press lauded him as a revolutionary, and his designs were highly sought-after. Carmel Snow, the editor of Harper's Bazaar was an early champion of his designs.

Customers risked their safety to travel to Europe during World War II to see Balenciaga's clothing. During this period, he was noted for his "square coat," with sleeves cut in a single piece with the yoke, and for his designs with black (or black and brown) lace over bright pink fabric.

 However, it was not until the post-war years that the full scale of the inventiveness of this highly original designer became evident. His lines became more linear and sleek, diverging from the hourglass shape popularized by Christian Dior's New Look. The fluidity of his silhouettes enabled him to manipulate the relationship between his clothing and women's bodies. In 1951, he totally transformed the silhouette, broadening the shoulders and removing the waist. In 1955, he designed the tunic dress, which later developed into the chemise dress of 1958. Other contributions in the postwar era included the spherical balloon jacket (1953), the high-waisted baby doll dress (1957), the cocoon coat (1957), the balloon skirt (1957), and the sack dress (1957).  In 1959, his work culminated in the Empire line, with high-waisted dresses and coats cut like kimonos. His manipulation of the waist, in particular, contributed to "what is considered to be his most important contribution to the world of fashion: a new silhouette for women."

In the 1960s, Balenciaga was an innovator in his use of fabrics: he tended toward heavy fabrics, intricate embroidery, and bold materials. His trademarks included "collars that stood away from the collarbone to give a swanlike appearance" and shortened "bracelet" sleeves. His often spare, sculptural creations—including funnel-shape gowns of stiff duchess satin worn to acclaim by clients such as Pauline de Rothschild, Bunny Mellon, Marella Agnelli, Gloria Guinness and Mona von Bismarck—were considered masterworks of haute couture in the 1950s and 1960s. Jackie Kennedy famously upset John F. Kennedy for buying Balenciaga's expensive creations while he was President because he feared that the American public might think the purchases too lavish. Her haute couture bills were eventually discreetly paid by her father-in-law, Joseph Kennedy.

Cristóbal Balenciaga left the house in 1968.



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I got the Fall 2007 Balenciaga Men’s lookbook at the Meatpacking district store in NYC. I was there for fashion week and was checking out the stores in the area. I prefer the Fall 2007 collection. It’s very preppy, which was keeping with the Balenciaga Fall 2007 woman minus the lego shoes. The Continue reading Balenciaga Menswear Lookbooks Fall 2007 and 2009  
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In one of those periodic mood swings, Nicolas Ghesquiere today took Balenciaga back to the streets. The clothes had a hard urban edge, beginning with hooded vests that combined leather and leather woven with other materials for an industrial texture.  
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Scorecard is now in Paris! (Hope you haven't missed us too terribly much.) The opening days' schedule put A-list designers Balenciaga and Balmain head to head. Christophe Decarnin scored points for what no critic thought possible - yet another iteration of dirty, sexy fashion - while Nicolas Ghesquière got them going on about deconstruction, dualistic tension and discourse.  
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It's a Balenciaga so you know you're going to love it. And what's not to love about this absolutely lust-worthy Balenciaga 'Neo-Classic Besace' Bag? The leather looks so soft and buttery and the turtle-dove grey is a chic but completely versatile color that matches just about anything you choose to pair it with. The sleek and simple, but slightly slouchy shape gives it an air of utilitarian sophistication and the larger...  
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Balenciaga will launch Balenciaga Paris in February. The new perfume for women, made under the Coty umbrella, will be the brand's first major perfume launch since Cristobal in 1998.* Balenciaga Paris was developed by perfumer Olivier Polge; the floral chypre features violet leaves, cedar and patchouli...  
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I have long been telling the story of my collection being Balenciaga-less. It is still Balenciaga-less, even though Vlad and I were on a mission to find me the perfect first Balenciaga bag when we were in NYC. What went wrong you ask, I’ll tell you below. We started off at the Balenciaga NY store, w ...  
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Updated Again! balenciaga inspired. PEDRO heels- 50% bebe dress! AND $7/$17 sale items below! Balenciaga Inspired tote. Excellent condition, did not come with mirror 15" length 9.5" height 4" base width 6.25" handle height. fits a4 but ...  
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With an overall pleasing silhouette, Balenciaga release a new footwear style with this high-top trainer. The sneaker features a busy upper which combines numerous materials together in one package including felt and other textured materials. Available now at Browns. See more at Balenciaga High-Top Trainer © extremeugene for Hypebeast, 2009. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Balenciaga, [...]  
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Balenciaga is a store whose collection is worth every penny spent and we literally wait for it to launch its new ranges every season. This time the store gave us a bonus with choosing Jennifer Connelly as its brand ambassador and seriously the lady..  
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Here is a look at the latest footwear release from Balenciaga 2009 Fall/Winter Collection. Building up the layers for the colder season, the high top sneaker is a combination of leather, laces, domes and felt, with the end result looking like carpet underlay wrapped up in bondage! Im still not sure what to think of [...]  
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Information about the new fashion exhibit at the Met in NYC:

POIRET King of Fashion
The Costume Institute
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, New York
May 9 - Aug 5, 2007

The exhibit is sponsored jointly by Balenciaga and Conde Nast
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Internatioal Corporate Contact:
T+ 33 1 56 52 17 50

New york Store:
Tel 1 212 279 4440

Online customer service:
Email info@balenciaga.com





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