{"id":15110,"date":"2015-08-05T06:48:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T04:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:81\/brandini\/index.php\/balenciaga-the-fashion-designer-who-sought-real-elegance\/"},"modified":"2020-06-04T17:28:07","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T15:28:07","slug":"balenciaga-the-fashion-designer-who-sought-real-elegance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/en\/balenciaga-the-fashion-designer-who-sought-real-elegance\/","title":{"rendered":"Balenciaga: the fashion designer who sought real elegance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/1-model-in-balenciaga-vogue-1950-photographed-by-irving-penn.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13936 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/1-model-in-balenciaga-vogue-1950-photographed-by-irving-penn-728x1024.jpg\" alt=\"1 model-in-balenciaga-vogue-1950-photographed-by-irving-penn\" width=\"640\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/1-model-in-balenciaga-vogue-1950-photographed-by-irving-penn-728x1024.jpg 728w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/1-model-in-balenciaga-vogue-1950-photographed-by-irving-penn-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/1-model-in-balenciaga-vogue-1950-photographed-by-irving-penn.jpg 846w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Photos Irving Penn, Balenciaga dress, Vogue 1950<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2-Dorian.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13937 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2-Dorian-724x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"2 Dorian\" width=\"640\" height=\"905\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2-Dorian-724x1024.jpeg 724w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2-Dorian-212x300.jpeg 212w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2-Dorian.jpeg 764w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;Dorian&#8221; by Beatrice Brandini<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>On the occasion of the 120 years since the birth of Cristobal Balenciaga, in Calais, Cit\u00e9 de la Dentelle et de la Mode, there is a beautiful exhibition dedicated to this great fashion designer.\u00a0<\/b><b>It is no coincidence that the gift is made in the most famous city in the world for its laces, Balenciaga loved indeed characterize his own creations with the lace, star of cocktail dresses, blouses, tunics, and more.<!--more--><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/3-affiche_exposition_balenciaga_cidm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13938\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/3-affiche_exposition_balenciaga_cidm-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"3 affiche_exposition_balenciaga_cidm\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/3-affiche_exposition_balenciaga_cidm-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/3-affiche_exposition_balenciaga_cidm-708x1024.jpg 708w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/3-affiche_exposition_balenciaga_cidm.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Poster of exhibition: \u201cBalenciaga magicien de la dentelle\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13939\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/4-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"4\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/4-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/4.jpg 786w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Sketch and dress of Cristobal Balenciaga<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13940\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/5-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"5\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/5-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/5.jpg 786w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Sketch and dress of Cristobal Balenciaga<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/6-Photo-Balenciaga-Paris.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13942\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/6-Photo-Balenciaga-Paris-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"6 Photo-Balenciaga-Paris\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/6-Photo-Balenciaga-Paris-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/6-Photo-Balenciaga-Paris-714x1024.jpg 714w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/6-Photo-Balenciaga-Paris.jpg 754w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Dress of Cristobal Balenciaga, 1967<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Many years ago I saw an exhibition in Rome dedicated to this great couturier and I must say that perhaps is the \u201cfashion\u201d exhibition most beautiful I&#8217;ve ever seen (and I&#8217;ve seen many &#8230;). But not for the numbers of proposals or the kind of exhibition, for a reason much more important, \u00a0for the clothes on display masterpieces of tailoring, absolutely modern and innovative, if I think that some had more than half a century .<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Balenciaga, Spanish-born young transplanted in Paris, he met the fame and popularity very soon. In fact in 1939 the Daily Express wrote: <i>&#8220;Officers Orders and journalists as a fist fight for a football game, to see the collection of the young Spaniard who is revolutionizing the fashion.&#8221; <\/i>And yet the Courrier of Mode:<i> &#8220;with the appearance simplicity, each of its sheath dresses blacks is a masterpiece of haute couture. To examine them carefully, you will discover the subtlety and originality of the cut &#8230; &#8220;<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13943\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/7-192x300.jpg\" alt=\"7\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/7-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/7.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/a><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Balenciaga coat, Irving Penn photos to Vogue, 1950<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13945\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/8-300x296.jpg\" alt=\"8\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/8-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/8.jpg 809w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Lace dress Balenciaga, 1951<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13946\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/9-285x300.jpg\" alt=\"9\" width=\"285\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/9-285x300.jpg 285w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/9.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 285px) 100vw, 285px\" \/><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Tailleur Balenciaga<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Even Christian Dior, who will triumph in the world in 1947 with his &#8220;New Look&#8221;, admired Balenciaga calling him <i>&#8220;the master of us all.&#8221;<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>In the early fifties Balenciaga threw shapes absolutely unprecedented for its time,<b> as the balloon dress, the tailleur without a belt, the tweed declined in all its versions (day and evening, suits or dresses), finally the beloved lace, \u00a0but played down and desecrated in many and unusual editions. Convinced that elegance and comfort should go hand in hand (I totally agree because the most beautiful dress if doesn\u2019t makes woman free and comfortable, don\u2019t have sense).<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In his studio, surrounded by his loyal and admiring collaborators, he breathed a magic atmosphere, made up of talented, calm and discipline. Balenciaga was a man very demanding but always deeply kind and polite.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/10-Balenciaga_calais.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13947\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/10-Balenciaga_calais-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"10 Balenciaga_calais\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/10-Balenciaga_calais-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/10-Balenciaga_calais.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Balenciaga outfit<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/11-Balenciaga-Dognin-1951BALENCIAGA-Henry-Clarke_Corbis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13948\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/11-Balenciaga-Dognin-1951BALENCIAGA-Henry-Clarke_Corbis-297x300.jpg\" alt=\"Model Wearing Balenciaga Satin and Lace Evening Gown\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/11-Balenciaga-Dognin-1951BALENCIAGA-Henry-Clarke_Corbis-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/11-Balenciaga-Dognin-1951BALENCIAGA-Henry-Clarke_Corbis.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Dress Balenciaga, 1951. Phot Henry Clarke<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/12-vintage-fashion-photography-vogue-vogue-fashion-style.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13949\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/12-vintage-fashion-photography-vogue-vogue-fashion-style-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"s double-balloon black taffeta evening cape\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/12-vintage-fashion-photography-vogue-vogue-fashion-style-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/12-vintage-fashion-photography-vogue-vogue-fashion-style-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/12-vintage-fashion-photography-vogue-vogue-fashion-style.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Dress balloon Balenciaga, Irving Penn photos to Vogue, 1950<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>In 1968 John Fairchild declares on &#8220;Women&#8217;s Wear Daily: <i>&#8220;Fashion lives of his ideas, the tailors are influenced by him, the richest society women pay the highest price: the top of American fashion has to follow him. &#8220;<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Balenciaga was a man of extraordinary capacity. He could assist and partly realized, up to one hundred and twenty tests in one day. Able to personally create a dress and a hat. Very demanding, like all great professionals, he could do, undo and redo even a model to find perfection<b>.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>He also had much taste for raw materials, namely fabrics, embroideries, buttons and all the details that make a dress a little masterpiece. Curious, he loved the new materials, fabrics, their weight and their &#8220;scent&#8221;.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/13-bis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13950\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/13-bis-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"13 bis\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/13-bis-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/13-bis.jpg 986w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Balenciaga, 1955. Photo Henry Clarke<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13952\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/13-300x262.jpg\" alt=\"Model in Balenciaga Floral Gown and Wrap\" width=\"300\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/13-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/13.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Balenciaga dress<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13953\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/14-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"14\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/14-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/14.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Cristobal Balenciaga in aterlier<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/15.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13954\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/15-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"15\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/15-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/15-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/15.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cMarie\u201d by Beatrice Brandini<\/b><\/p>\n<p>1968, year of great social upheaval in France and in the world, sees the latest collection of the master. The closure of his fashion house makes him deeply sad, but it is a personal and conscious choice, convinced that luxury and elegance have no more place in the &#8220;modern&#8221; society. <b>The journalist Sam White writes on &#8216;&#8221;Evening Standard&#8221;: <i>&#8220;Balenciaga closes, fashion will never be the same again.&#8221;<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>&#8220;His evening dresses make women elegant as swans&#8221;.<\/i> Diane Vreeland<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>&#8220;He created the future of fashion&#8221;.<\/i> Cecil Beaton<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>&#8220;To take my models a woman does not need to be perfect, nor even beautiful: the dress will be to make it so&#8221;.<\/i> Cristobal Balenciaga<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/16.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13955\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/16-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"16\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/16-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/16.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Cape and gown by Balenciaga, 1961. Photo Kublin<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Good life to all!<\/p>\n<p>Beatrice<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos Irving Penn, Balenciaga dress, Vogue 1950 &#8220;Dorian&#8221; by Beatrice Brandini On the occasion of the 120 years since the birth of Cristobal Balenciaga, in Calais, Cit\u00e9 de la Dentelle et de la Mode, there is a beautiful exhibition dedicated to this great fashion designer.\u00a0It is no coincidence that the gift is made in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ 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