Harper’s Bazaar said: “Balenciaga assured that elimination is the secret of chic”. A science of the blueprint of clear couture for disconcerting elegance.
Play on proportions and volumes expressed through an emphasis of the back, erasing the shoulders, and a release of height, and in 1947, or even earlier, the New Look arrived. Lines Cocoon, Malabar and the Cloche were invented.
A legacy Alexander Wang, the new artistic director of the house since December 2012, has reinvested and sublimated, according to Cristobal Balenciaga’s definition: “A good couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony and a philosopher for the measure”.
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