#QOTD No. 6: Cristobal Balenciaga
“Elegance is elimination.”
Cristóbal Balenciaga Eizaguirre was a Spanish fashion designer and the founder of the Balenciaga fashion house. He was referred to as "the master of us all" by Christian Dior and as "the only couturier in the truest sense of the word" by Coco Chanel. On the day of his death, in 1972, Women's Wear Daily ran the headline "The king is dead" (no one in the fashion world had any doubt as to whom it referred). -wikipedia
photo: Liberty Belle
BACKGROUND PHOTO: Cristobal Balenciaga, couture 1968. Black and white silk gazar. From the exhibition, "Paris Refashioned 1957-1968," through April 15 2017, at The Museum at FIT. (Photo © 2017 Arturo Veloira)
