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Balenciaga and his legacy : haute couture from the Texas Fashion Collection /

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: New Haven : Yale University Press ; Dallas : in association with the Meadows Museum, ©2006.Description: xvii, 162 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cmISBN:
  • 0300121539
  • 9780300121537
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • TT502 .W35 2006
Contents:
Remembering Balenciaga / Hubert de Givenchy -- The impact of Cristóbal Balenciaga / Myra Walker with Agustín M. Balenciaga -- Diary of a collector: Claudia Heard de Osborne / Myra Walker -- Neiman Marcus: a fashion capital / Myra Walker with Lawrence Marcus -- Inside the House of Balenciaga in Paris / Myra Walker -- The Balenciaga legacy endures / Myra Walker.
Summary: "Short-listed for the 2008 Millia Davenport Publication Award, given by the Costume Society of America. Born in 1895 in a remote fishing village in Spain, Cristobal 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 most outstanding and innovative examples of French and Spanish haute couture of the era. This beautifully illustrated book presents nearly 70 Balenciaga creations for day and evening, along with 25 hats, from the extraordinary archives of the Texas Fashion Collection of the University of North Texas. The book also includes striking fashion photographs from Vogue magazine and Harper's Bazaar by Richard Avedon and Louise Dahl-Wolfe. A series of essays explores many aspects of the designer's work, among them his contributions to fashion history; connections with such other prominent designers as Hubert de Givenchy and Oscar de la Renta; important relationships with Neiman Marcus and fashion buyer Bert de Winter in Dallas; and his close friend and client Claudia Heard de Osborne."--Publisher's website.
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"Published to coincide with the exhibition organized by the Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, in association with the Texas Fashion Collection at the University of North Texas"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-150).

Remembering Balenciaga / Hubert de Givenchy -- The impact of Cristóbal Balenciaga / Myra Walker with Agustín M. Balenciaga -- Diary of a collector: Claudia Heard de Osborne / Myra Walker -- Neiman Marcus: a fashion capital / Myra Walker with Lawrence Marcus -- Inside the House of Balenciaga in Paris / Myra Walker -- The Balenciaga legacy endures / Myra Walker.

"Short-listed for the 2008 Millia Davenport Publication Award, given by the Costume Society of America. Born in 1895 in a remote fishing village in Spain, Cristobal 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 most outstanding and innovative examples of French and Spanish haute couture of the era. This beautifully illustrated book presents nearly 70 Balenciaga creations for day and evening, along with 25 hats, from the extraordinary archives of the Texas Fashion Collection of the University of North Texas. The book also includes striking fashion photographs from Vogue magazine and Harper's Bazaar by Richard Avedon and Louise Dahl-Wolfe. A series of essays explores many aspects of the designer's work, among them his contributions to fashion history; connections with such other prominent designers as Hubert de Givenchy and Oscar de la Renta; important relationships with Neiman Marcus and fashion buyer Bert de Winter in Dallas; and his close friend and client Claudia Heard de Osborne."--Publisher's website.

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