Balenciaga

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Founded in 1918 by the Basque designer Cristobal Balenciaga, the house emerged as one of the greatest design establishments in the early decades of the twentieth century, and re-emerged around the turn of the new millennium as one of the greats of the twenty-first. In 1987, the name was revived as a prêt-à-porter label but it wasn't until 1997, when the youthful French designer Nicolas Ghesquière came onboard as creative director that the house began to regain its former prominence. Giving concepts from the rich Balenciaga archives an intriguing rethink, the instinctively progressive Ghesquière was dubbed a new messiah by the press. These days, tabloid images of the princesses of Hollywood wearing and carrying Balenciaga keep the knockoff factories churning.

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Event End Time: 2017-02-14