{"id":16754,"date":"2017-08-01T07:19:54","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T05:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icon-vrai.loc\/2017\/08\/01\/lace-balenciagas-favorite-material\/"},"modified":"2020-10-21T00:07:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T22:07:45","slug":"lace-balenciagas-favorite-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icon-icon.com\/en\/lace-balenciagas-favorite-material\/","title":{"rendered":"Lace, Balenciaga\u2019s Favorite Material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">The use of lace in Crist\u00f3bal Balenciaga\u2019s majestic work was honored with a <a href=\"http:\/\/icon-vrai.loc\/fr\/mode-et-accessoires\/haute-couture\/la-dentelle-calais-et-balenciaga\">2015<\/a> retrospective at the Cit\u00e9 de la Dentelle et de la Mode in Calais, France. The \u201cmagician of lace\u201d that Balenciaga was never ceased to experiment with the preciousness, delicateness, and charm of this material in his visionary fashion. Like a number of fashion stories, this one started with a collision of two cultures. Crist\u00f3bal Balenciaga founded his brand in 1918 in San Sebastian, in the north of Spain. In 1935, the civil war would force him to leave the country &#8211; he would thus inaugurate Balenciaga\u2019s first boutique in Paris two years later at 10 Avenue Georges V. In those days, women were still obliged to follow certain etiquette when it came to their wardrobe: a blouse and a skirt in the morning, a lace tunic in the afternoon, and evening or cocktail dresses at night, topped off by gloves and a bolero or a hat. They wouldn\u2019t be freed from these constraints until World War II.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Balenciaga would lead these woman on a quest for modernity. His favorite fabric? Lace in all its forms. Crist\u00f3bal Balenciaga would make reference to the paintings of a certain grand master from his homeland in his quest to comprehend this fabric: \u201cOf all the characteristics of lace, its transparency was what the couturier most liked to magnify by taking inspiration [\u2026] from Goya\u2019s portraits.\u201d as the book&nbsp;<i>Balenciaga Magicien de la Dentelle&nbsp;<\/i>puts it. One can only notice the resemblance and inspirational link between Balenciaga\u2019s lace creations and Goya\u2019s portraits of Queen Maria Luisa done a century beforehand. The couturier also explored different ways of using lace, magnifying its characteristics in the meantime. Playing with motifs and colors, Balenciaga lace touches up blouses, cocktail dresses, tunics, and accessories, bearing witness to the stylistic originality of this \u201ccouturier of couturiers\u201d as Christian Dior liked to call him.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">From 1957 onward, Balenciaga has been offering lace pieces to an international clientele, from bag dresses to the iconic baby doll dress, the piece that symbolizes innocence tied to a desire for youth. In 1958, Balenciaga composed a gift for Claudia Heard De Osborne: a baby doll dress made of sun green lace. \u201cIt was the finesse, the craftsmanship, and the glorification of lace,\u201d remarked Shazia Boucher, deputy director of conservation at the Cit\u00e9 de la Dentelle. For Spring\/Summer 2006, it was then-creative director Nicolas Ghesqui\u00e8re\u2019s turn to explore the founder\u2019s favorite playing field. A fervent talent of the fashion world who largely contributed to the brand\u2019s return to centerstage, he created a collection that admirably put lace back at the heart of Balenciaga fashion. With sprinkles of feathers and ribbons, Ghesqui\u00e8re\u2019s dresses for Balenciaga went back to transparency as well, with silk and inserted cascading adornments. With black as the key color for the Spring\/Summer 2006 collection, Nicolas Ghesqui\u00e8re expressed all the magic of Balenciaga in an updated 21st century version.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The use of lace in Crist\u00f3bal Balenciaga\u2019s majestic work was honored with a 2015 retrospective at the Cit\u00e9 de la Dentelle et de la Mode in Calais, France. The \u201cmagician of lace\u201d that Balenciaga was never ceased to experiment with the preciousness, delicateness, and charm of this material in his visionary fashion. Like a number&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,6,21346],"tags":[1612,1611,9222,14353,14730],"class_list":["post-16754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fashion-accessories","category-ready-to-wear","category-pret-a-porter-2-en","tag-about-balenciaga","tag-about-cristobal-balenciaga","tag-balenciaga-par-nicolas-ghesquiere","tag-balenciaga-robes-collction","tag-dentelle"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lace, Balenciaga\u2019s Favorite Material - ICON-ICON<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.icon-icon.com\/en\/lace-balenciagas-favorite-material\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lace, Balenciaga\u2019s Favorite Material - ICON-ICON\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The use of lace in Crist\u00f3bal Balenciaga\u2019s majestic work was honored with a 2015 retrospective at the Cit\u00e9 de la Dentelle et de la Mode in Calais, France. 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