Balenciaga
(1895-1972) Spanish couturier. His influential innovations in womens clothing included drop shoulder lines, nipped-in waists, and rounded hips, followed by three-quarter length sleeves and the pillbox hat. During the 1950s1960s he moved away from fitted outfits to show loose designs such as a dress known as the sack, cut full around the body and gathered or tapered into a narrow hem-band just below the knees, in 1956 and loose full jackets in the 1960s. He retired 1968.
Balenciaga · Cristobal Balenciaga
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