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	Balenciaga
		Cristobel Balenciaga, who became one of the most important designers of the late 1940s and 50s, was a genius whose style over the years has proved to be utterly timeless.
		It was Balenciaga who helped to pioneer the feminising of fashion in the early post war years, showing fuller and longer skirts as early as the Spring of 1945, and he soon acquired a well respected reputation for being several years ahead of most designers in the evolution of new fashion trends.
		Balenciaga was born in 1895 in Guetaria, part of the Spanish Basque country.
	www.highheelsnewsletter.com /Balenciaga.html (922 words)

	Cristóbal Balenciaga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John F. Kennedy was famously upset with Jackie Kennedy for buying Balenciaga's expensive creations while he was President for fear that the American public might think the purchases too lavish.
		Today the Balenciaga fashion house is still going under the direction of Nicolas Ghesquière and under the ownership of the Gucci Group.
		Balenciaga is known for their couture cut fashions and cult favorite handbags such as the Lariat.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cristobal_Balenciaga (253 words)

	Balenciaga Handbags - Buy Balenciaga Handbags Online - New 2006 Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Cristobal Balenciaga (creator of Balenciaga Handbags) was born in 1885 in Guetaria, Spain.
		Balenciaga had a large amount of experience in design of Balenciaga Handbags by this point, but the French had not heard of him.
		Balenciaga's designs were welcomed as new, and he regarded as a new icon.
	mujweb.cz /www/fashion-designer/balenciaga-handbags.html (256 words)

	Phoenix Art Museum - Balenciaga Couture
		Cristobal Balenciaga is acknowledged as the master of 20th century French haute couture.
		Balenciaga's extraordinary skill in design, cut and tailoring, combined with his knowledge of fabrics, has set him apart from all other designers.
		Balenciaga's ateliers in Spain and Paris produced clothing for many of the world's most distinguished women from 1937 until his retirement in 1968.
	www.phxart.org /pastexhibitions/Balenciaga_Couture.asp (245 words)

	Cristobal Balenciaga (1895-1972) \| Special Topics Page \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Balenciaga was born in the small fishing village of Guetaria in the Basque region of Spain on January 21, 1895.
		By 1939, Balenciaga was being praised in the French press as a revolutionizing force in fashion, with buyers and customers fighting to gain access to his collection.
		When the Balenciaga salon closed in 1968, the occasion marked the end of the career of a great artist whose influence is still being felt in the twenty-first century.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/bale/hd_bale.htm (789 words)

	glbtq >> arts >> Balenciaga, Cristóbal
		So flattering were Balenciaga's creations that women often ordered more than one of each design so that they could wear one while the other was being cleaned or so they could keep one at each of their houses.
		Balenciaga was a perfectionist and insisted that his garments be perfect before they were released to his customers.
		In 1956, Balenciaga presented a loose dress unflatteringly called the sack (which anticipated the 1960s sheath dress) and created his distinctive asymmetric look by raising the hemlines at the front and dropping them low at the back of dresses and coats.
	www.glbtq.com /arts/balenciaga_c.html (868 words)

	Designer - Balenciaga . SEEKOVER . find it (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He was not an inexperienced novice when he arrived in Paris but he was not well known however within a year his dresses were seen on all fashionable women and he was hailed as the new leading light.
		Balenciaga always seemed to be several steps ahead of the other designers.
		Balenciaga hated the fashion press and publicity, and from 1957 denied them entry to his collections.
	www.seekover.com /fashion/fashion_icons/balenciaga.htm (462 words)

	CNST 213 Spanish Influences on Dress
		Cristobal Balenciaga (1895-1972) was a Spanish-born couture designer and was the main Spanish influence on dress during the 1940s and 1950s.
		Balenciaga was active as a designer in Paris from 1937 to 1968.
		He remained forever a Spaniard and his inspiration came from the bullrings, the flamenco dancers, the fishermen in their boots and loose blouses, and the glories of the church and the cool of the cloisters and monasteries.
	udel.edu /~orzada/spain.htm (530 words)

	Search Results for "Balenciaga"
		A disciple of Balenciaga and assistant designer to Schiaparelli, he opened his own house...
		He studied in Madrid and began a career in fashion with Balenciaga.
		During her tenure, the museum held exhibitions on the work of Cristobal Balenciaga and treated such themes as "American Women of Style," The Glory...
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	Amazon.com: Balenciaga (Universe of Fashion): Books: Marie-Andree Jouve (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Christian Dior called Cristobal Balenciaga "the master of us all." The priest-like Balenciaga, whose private life remained a total mystery until the day he died, created day dresses of deceiving simplicity and evening gowns of staggering extravagance, and for them he was paid the highest prices in the couture world.
		Cristobal Balenciaga was born in 1895 in Getaria, in Spain's Basque country, and at the early age of twenty-four he created his own couture house in San Sebastian.
		Cristobal Balenciaga retired in 1968 and died in reclusion in his native Spain in 1972.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0789300915?v=glance (910 words)

	Amazon.com: Balenciaga: Books: Marie-Andree Jouve (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Basque-born Cristobal Balenciaga, one of the leading couturiers of this century, found his metier in dress design early, spurred by his mother's work as a dressmaking teacher.
		Balenciaga's famous draping technique, inspired by the paintings of Zurbaran, led to the creation of fantastic silhouettes (Colette, Marlene Dietrich and the Duchess of Windsor were among his clients), exemplified in evening dresses with enormous, jutting shoulders or full skirts bunched at calf level.
		She shows she really understands what she is talking about.What I liked most about this book is that it gives a general overview of the work of this master, including some high quality pictures of his most famous dresses.And for those who really prefer pictures, this is the book for you.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0847810798?v=glance (719 words)

	CRISTOBAL BALENCIAGA
		Balenciaga's most famous decade was the 1950's, when he introduced many new looks.
		Balenciaga was fascinated by every seam, a master of colour, cut and line.
		The house of Balenciaga was owned by Jacques Bogart SA till Spring of 2001, when a controlling interest was bought by Gucci.
	www.designerhistory.com /historyofashion/balenciaga.html (1665 words)

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		He opened with a series of beige coats cut for a space station shopping spree and trimmed with mink or beaver, before segueing into several “Courreges” looks, all white naturally, with horizontal clasps and rolled over buttons that one sensed most of the women in the audience were just dying to wear.
		Balenciaga turns down hundreds of requests each season for invitations, preferring to show in a simple white space in St Germain to 120 leaders in the world of style.
		Much has been made of the continued losses at the house of Balenciaga, but it would surely be unwise for its owners, Gucci Group, to divest itself of this designer and house.
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	Paris Fashion Review - Balenciaga - Dior - New York Times
		The shrugging, alien, clubfooted army of Balenciaga: this is fashion for the 21st century.
		Ghesquiere is so confident about using the Balenciaga archive, and bending it to his own ideas, that his clothes have gained a more vigorous sense of freedom and surprise.
		There are the extravagant Balenciaga gestures, like a flounced coat, but there are also more accessible styles, like a fisherman's knit sweater worn with a plaid satin skirt or cap-sleeve jackets in fl wool shown over white shirts and his signature skinny pants, now polished with thin silver-metal belts.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/03/01/fashion/shows/01FASH.html?ex=1298869200&en=0530bbd7b7657730&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (914 words)

	Cristobal Balenciaga, Fashion Designer, Design Schools (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Fashion Designer BALENCIAGA, date of creation: 1937 It is not surprising that Spain has produced a genius like BALENCIAGA, capable of the most daring innovations in a superbly classic style.
		BALENCIAGA himself sums it as follows : a Couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a philosopher for temperance.
		His last public appearance in Paris was for the funeral of Coco Chanel, who once said that BALENCIAGA is the only couturier able to design, cut, assemble and sew a dress together entirely by himself.
	www.xinconet.com /fashion_design_school/fashion_designer/cristobal_balenciaga.html (645 words)

	Balenciaga Fall 2006 Ready-to-Wear Collection on Style.com: Runway Review
		It was Balenciaga at double force: the template of Cristobal Balenciaga's past, rigorously rethought by Nicolas Ghesquière, a young designer gifted with the intellect and technical skill to propel the name to a whole new relevance.
		In a season when so many designers are quoting Balenciaga, Ghesquière pushed his design to a place no one else has reached.
		Part of it was in the intensity of the decoration involved—like the minutely beaded flowers on a white bodice, the zones of tiny ruffles outlining a shift, or the hand-painted rose-color patterning on a skirt that bloomed like an exotic flower.
	www.style.com /fashionshows/collections/F2006RTW/review/BALENCIA (435 words)

	Elegant-Lifestyle.com: Clothing: Fashion: The Grand French Haute Couture Houses: The House of Cristobal Balenciaga
		Chanel said of Balenciaga that of all twentieth-century designers, the only one who could create a garment from the beginning to end was Balanciaga.
		Cristobal Balenciaga (1895-1972) was the mentor of Hubert de Givenchy.
		Courrèges (born in 1923) and Emanuel Ungaro (born in 1933) learnt haute couture with Balanciaga.
	www.elegant-lifestyle.com /haute_couture_balenciaga.htm (337 words)

	Gucci Group acquires Balenciaga
		Under the design leadership of Nicolas Ghesquière, Balenciaga has regained this position and is poised to continue to influence fashion in the 21st century.
		In 2000, Balenciaga had net revenues of around $20 million, approximately two-thirds of which came from fragrances and the balance from ready-to-wear and accessories, including from licensed businesses.
		Balenciaga flourished as one of the great icons of the Paris fashion world and internationally under the guidance of Cristobal Balenciaga.
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		Balenciaga: 1895 Cristobal Balenciaga was born in Guetaria Spain.
		In 2001, Balenciaga was acquired by the Gucci Group.
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	Balenciaga Cologne by Balenciaga Discount Sale
		Launched by the design house of BALENCIAGA in 1990, BALENCIAGA cologne by Balenciaga is classified as a luxurious, oriental, woody fragrance.
		Apply the Balenciaga on body points such as the inside of your elbow, back of your knees, wrist, neck and cleavage where the perfume stays warmer longer.
		Perfume is composed of natural or synthetic fragrant oil extracts diluted in water and high-grade alcohol.
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	CNN - Balenciaga creates a flap(per) for summer 1999 - May 6, 1999
		Ensembles from the 1999 Balenciaga spring/summer collection come in light, crisp fabrics and make a stylish transition from a tailored approach on top to swirling skirts below.
		Models for the Balenciaga show in Paris wore their hair à la Peggy Lipton of the '70s "The Mod Squad" TV show -- long, straight and parted in the middle.
		And chestnut-brown boots were worn with Balenciaga's mid-length skirts.
	www.cnn.com /STYLE/9905/06/balenciaga.ss99 (175 words)

	Balenciaga Perfume, Cologne & Fragrances (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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		After Cristobal Pour Elle, we now have Cristobal Pour Homme, and so the story continuesâ¦ The ambition of the Balenciaga House is to be in step with modernity, while...
		Talisman by Balenciaga opens with a fruity-floral accord of lychee, dried fruits and osmanthus enhanced by a rum effect and davana.
	www.escentual.co.uk /Balenciaga.html (420 words)

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	Nicolas Ghesquiere for Balenciaga - Fashion Designer - Full Frontal Fashion
		The Label: Cristobal Balenciaga started his couture house back in 1919, influencing the face of modern couture with his imposing, sculpture-like silhouettes.
		The line, dormant for nearly thirty years, stepped into the ready-to-wear arena in the 90's, reproducing classic looks for the minimal tides of that era.
		Balenciaga has recently become red-hot again, thanks to the futuristic avant-gardism of the "Le Dix" collection, helmed by creative director Nicholas Ghesquiere.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /fashion/fashionshows/designers/bios/nicolasghesquiere.htm (220 words)

	Balenciaga Purse
		His often spare, sculptural creations—including funnel-shape gowns of stiff duchess satin worn to acclaim by clients such as Pauline de Rothschild and Mona von Bismarck—were considered masterworks of haute couture in the 1950s and 1960s.
		Balenciaga is known for their very couture cut clothing and stunning cult fave handbags.
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	balenciagapurse.blogspot.com (145 words)

	Balenciaga Bags - Handbags - The Purse Blog
		Unfortunately little Miss Nicky Hilton was digging for gold with her Balenciaga bag in the other arm when the paparazzi caught her.
		What I didn’t know until recently is that Balenciaga actually uses naturally distressed goat leather that gives the bags the slouchy, unique and ultra chic look that everyone loves and adores.
		Definitely call them up, they don’t update the Balenciaga store page as frequently as they should.
	www.purseblog.com /styles/brands/balenciaga (747 words)

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