{"id":46422,"date":"2025-06-20T01:32:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T23:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/?p=46422"},"modified":"2025-06-20T01:36:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T23:36:23","slug":"october-2025-alaia-and-balenciaga-sculptors-of-shape-museo-del-tessuto-di-prato-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/en\/october-2025-alaia-and-balenciaga-sculptors-of-shape-museo-del-tessuto-di-prato-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"October 2025: Ala\u00efa and Balenciaga Sculptors of Shape @ Museo del Tessuto di Prato Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1_Alaia-et-Balenciaga-Archives.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-46388 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1_Alaia-et-Balenciaga-Archives.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1075\" height=\"605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1_Alaia-et-Balenciaga-Archives.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1_Alaia-et-Balenciaga-Archives-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1_Alaia-et-Balenciaga-Archives-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1_Alaia-et-Balenciaga-Archives-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1_Alaia-et-Balenciaga-Archives-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1075px) 100vw, 1075px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Sketches from the Balenciaga archive, Paris<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2-Alaia-rencontre-Balenciaga.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-46390 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2-Alaia-rencontre-Balenciaga.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1069\" height=\"754\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2-Alaia-rencontre-Balenciaga.jpg 1051w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2-Alaia-rencontre-Balenciaga-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2-Alaia-rencontre-Balenciaga-1024x722.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2-Alaia-rencontre-Balenciaga-768x541.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1069px) 100vw, 1069px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Alaia rencontre Balenciaga by Beatrice Brandini<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In October, on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, the Fondazione Museo del Tessuto, in collaboration with the Azzedine Ala\u00efa Foundation in Paris, announces a spectacular exhibition <b>Ala\u00efa and Balenciaga Sculptors of Form<\/b>, an exhibition project dedicated to two masters and absolute icons of French fashion, for the first time in Italy.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3-ALAIA-COUTURE-1988-ETE.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-46392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3-ALAIA-COUTURE-1988-ETE-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3-ALAIA-COUTURE-1988-ETE-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3-ALAIA-COUTURE-1988-ETE-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3-ALAIA-COUTURE-1988-ETE-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3-ALAIA-COUTURE-1988-ETE-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3-ALAIA-COUTURE-1988-ETE-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3-ALAIA-COUTURE-1988-ETE-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-46394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3-ALAIA-COUTURE-1988-ETE-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3-ALAIA-COUTURE-1988-ETE-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3-ALAIA-COUTURE-1988-ETE-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3-ALAIA-COUTURE-1988-ETE-1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Ala\u00efa couture dress Automne -Hiver 1988 &#8211;\u00a0<\/b><b>Cristobal Balenciaga Haute Couture dress 1960<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The idea was born thanks to the desire of another great French couturier, Mrs. <b>Hubert de Givenchy<\/b>, who wanted to induce a dialogue between two historic talents of haute couture. The exhibition, curated by Olivier Saillard and presented at the Azzedine Ala\u00efa Foundation in 2020, finally arrives in Italy at the Museum of Prato.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/5-A.ALAIA-COUTURE-HIVER-1989.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-46398\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/5-A.ALAIA-COUTURE-HIVER-1989-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/5-A.ALAIA-COUTURE-HIVER-1989-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/5-A.ALAIA-COUTURE-HIVER-1989-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/5-A.ALAIA-COUTURE-HIVER-1989.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/6-BALENCIAGA-1940-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-46400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/6-BALENCIAGA-1940-2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/6-BALENCIAGA-1940-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/6-BALENCIAGA-1940-2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/6-BALENCIAGA-1940-2.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Ala\u00efa bolero couture Automne -Hiver 1989 &#8211;\u00a0<\/b><b>Cristobal Balenciaga bolero Haute Couture 194<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The exhibition will feature fifty dresses from the <b>Azzedine Ala\u00efa Foundation<\/b> and original documents and videos from the Balenciaga Archive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/7-A.ALAIA-COUTURE-2003-ETE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-46402\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/7-A.ALAIA-COUTURE-2003-ETE-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/7-A.ALAIA-COUTURE-2003-ETE-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/7-A.ALAIA-COUTURE-2003-ETE-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/7-A.ALAIA-COUTURE-2003-ETE.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/8-BALENCIAGA-1954-HIVER.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-46404\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/8-BALENCIAGA-1954-HIVER-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/8-BALENCIAGA-1954-HIVER-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/8-BALENCIAGA-1954-HIVER-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/8-BALENCIAGA-1954-HIVER.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Ala\u00efa couture dress Automne -Hiver 2003 &#8211;\u00a0<\/b><b>Cristobal Balenciaga bolero Haute Couture 1954<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A wonderful dialogue, a happy meeting, a joy for those who love fashion and not only, because these two great masters are the demonstration of how fashion is a high artistic expression in all respects. Balenciaga first, Azzedine after, have demonstrated a technical ability and an inexhaustible creativity, capable of creating sculpture dresses, unforgettable creations that find their natural place in a museum.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/9-Alaia-et-Balenciaga-Archives.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-46406\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/9-Alaia-et-Balenciaga-Archives-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/9-Alaia-et-Balenciaga-Archives-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/9-Alaia-et-Balenciaga-Archives-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/9-Alaia-et-Balenciaga-Archives-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/9-Alaia-et-Balenciaga-Archives-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/9-Alaia-et-Balenciaga-Archives.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Sketches from the Balenciaga archive, Paris<\/b><\/p>\n<p>When the Maison Balenciaga closed for good in 1968, the young emerging designer Ala\u00efa was called by Mademoiselle Ren\u00e9e, deputy general manager of the Maison, to choose a selection of the Master&#8217;s creations, because only his hands would be able to rework and renew them, without betraying them.<\/p>\n<p>The young Ala\u00efa was so amazed by the shapes, the architecture of the cuts and the technical skill of each piece, that from then on he cultivated a deep respect for the history of fashion and considered the encounter with Balenciaga&#8217;s work the starting point for the rediscovery of the great masters of cutting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/10.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-46408\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/10-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/10-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/10-1024x575.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/10-768x431.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/10.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/11.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-46410\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/11-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/11-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/11-1024x575.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/11-768x431.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/11.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Images from the press conference.\u00a0<\/b><b>Filippo Guarini, Director of the Prato Textile Museum, Carla Sozzani, President of the Ala\u00efa Foundation, Fabia Romagnoli, President of the Prato Textile Museum Foundation.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cClients<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>would bring me Balenciaga dresses and ask me to shorten the hem: I would ask them if I could keep the dresses and do something new for them instead. That<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>was when I began to became aware of the fact that fashion is a cultural heritage. It is important to give young designers the opportunity to discover the work and techniques of those who came before them.\u201d<\/i> Azzedine Ala\u00efa.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/13.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-46414\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/13-169x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/13-169x300.jpeg 169w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/13-575x1024.jpeg 575w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/13-768x1367.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/13-863x1536.jpeg 863w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/13-1150x2048.jpeg 1150w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/13-scaled.jpeg 1438w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/14.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-46418\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/14-169x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/14-169x300.jpeg 169w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/14-575x1024.jpeg 575w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/14.jpeg 719w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Other images from the press conference, two extraordinary protagonists of the history of fashion, Carla Sozzani and Suzy Menkes<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The tribute to Cristobal Balenciaga and Azzedine Ala\u00efa continues the Textile Museum&#8217;s study of the work of the greats of fashion, a journey that began in 2014 with Gianfranco Ferr\u00e8 and continued with Walter Albini last year, passing through the English Ossie Clark and Celia Birtwell.<\/p>\n<p>We can&#8217;t wait to admire these works of art in person, the appointment is for October 25, 2025 until May 3, 2026 in Prato at the Textile Museum.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/15-Museo-del-Tessuto-di-Prato@fernando-guerra_246.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-46420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/15-Museo-del-Tessuto-di-Prato@fernando-guerra_246-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/15-Museo-del-Tessuto-di-Prato@fernando-guerra_246-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/15-Museo-del-Tessuto-di-Prato@fernando-guerra_246-848x1024.jpg 848w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/15-Museo-del-Tessuto-di-Prato@fernando-guerra_246-768x927.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/15-Museo-del-Tessuto-di-Prato@fernando-guerra_246-1273x1536.jpg 1273w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/15-Museo-del-Tessuto-di-Prato@fernando-guerra_246.jpg 1657w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>The Textile Museum in Prato<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Good life to all!<\/p>\n<p>Beatrice<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sketches from the Balenciaga archive, Paris Alaia rencontre Balenciaga by Beatrice Brandini In October, on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, the Fondazione Museo del Tessuto, in collaboration with the Azzedine Ala\u00efa Foundation in Paris, 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