\nCrist\u00f3bal Balenciaga Eizaguirre s-a n\u0103scut pe 21 ianuarie 1895 \u00een Getaria, o provincie din \u0162ara Bascilor, Spania, \u00eentr-o familie simpl\u0103; tat\u0103l s\u0103u, care a murit pe c\u00e2nd Balenciaga avea o v\u00e2rst\u0103 fraged\u0103, era pescar, iar mama sa, croitoreas\u0103. \u00cenc\u0103 din copil\u0103rie, \u00een loc s\u0103 mearg\u0103 la joac\u0103 al\u0103turi de al\u0163i copii, designerul prefera s\u0103 o ajute pe mama sa, dar \u015fi s\u0103 \u00eenve\u0163e tainele croitoriei.<\/p>\n
\nLa v\u00e2rsta de 12 ani, el s-a angajat ca ucenic \u00een atelierul unui croitor. Ulterior, \u00een adolescen\u0163\u0103, a fost descoperit de marchiza de Casa Torres, care nu doar c\u0103 a devenit clienta sa, ci, vr\u00e2nd s\u0103 \u00eel ajute, l-a trimis la Madrid pentru a urma un curs de specialitate. \u00cen 1919 t\u00e2n\u0103rul designer \u015fi-a deschis un butic \u00een San Sebasti\u00e1n, pe care l-a extins ulterior cu alte dou\u0103 loca\u0163ii \u00een Madrid \u015fi Barcelona. Familia regal\u0103 spaniol\u0103 \u015fi al\u0163i aristocra\u0163i din \u0163ar\u0103 au \u00eenceput s\u0103 \u00eei poarte crea\u0163iile, \u00eens\u0103 c\u00e2nd r\u0103zboiul civil spaniol l-a for\u0163at s\u0103 \u00ee\u015fi \u00eenchid\u0103 magazinele, Balenciaga a decis s\u0103 se mute la Paris, unde \u015fi-a deschis o cas\u0103 de mod\u0103 couture pe Avenue George V, \u00een august 1937. Cu toate acestea, abia dup\u0103 \u00eencheierea r\u0103zboiului crea\u0163iile sale au devenit cu adev\u0103rat cunoscute. \u00cen 1960 el a realizat rochia de mireas\u0103 a Fabiolei de Mora y Arag\u00f3n, la nunta acesteia cu regele Baudouin I al Belgiei. Regina \u015fi-a donat ulterior rochia de mireas\u0103 funda\u0163iei Crist\u00f3bal Balenciaga.<\/p>\n
\nEl a predat, de asemenea, cursuri de design vestimentar, inspir\u00e2nd al\u0163i designeri, printre care Oscar de la Renta, Andr\u00e9 Courr\u00e8ges, Emanuel Ungaro, Mila Sch\u00f6n \u015fi Hubert de Givenchy.<\/p>\n
\nCele mai faimoase cliente ale sale au fost Mona von Bismarck, Grace Kelly, Ava Gardner, Audrey Hepburn \u015fi Jackie Kennedy. La 74 de ani, dup\u0103 ce a lucrat la Paris timp de trei decenii, designerul a decis s\u0103 se retrag\u0103 \u015fi \u015fi-a \u00eenchis casele de mod\u0103 din Paris, Barcelona \u015fi Madrid. Balenciaga a murit pe 23 martie 1972 \u00een X\u00e0bia, Spania. Crea\u0163iile sale au fost considerate adev\u0103rate opere de haute couture \u00een anii 1950 \u015fi 1960. Christian Dior l-a numit \u201eun maestru pentru noi to\u0163i\u201d, iar Coco Chanel, \u201esingurul couturier \u00een adev\u0103ratul sens al cuv\u00e2ntului\u201d, afirm\u00e2nd, \u00een completare, c\u0103 \u201eceilal\u0163i sunt simpli designeri de mod\u0103\u201d. La moartea sa, evenimentul a fost relatat de revista Women\u2019s Wear Daily sub titul \u201eThe King is Dead\u201d (\u201eRegele a murit\u201d).<\/p>\n
\n\u00cen 1986, Jacques Bogart SA a cump\u0103rat drepturile de produc\u0163ie ale Balenciaga. Pe 7 iunie 2011, \u00een ora\u015ful natal al designerului a fost inaugurat Muzeul Balenciaga, \u00een prezen\u0163a lui Hubert de Givenchy, pre\u015fedintele onorific al Funda\u0163iei Balenciaga. Muzeul are o colec\u0163ie de peste 1.200 de piese create de artist. \u00cen prezent, casa de mod\u0103 este de\u0163inut\u0103 de grupul francez Kering SA. \u015fi are o echip\u0103 de peste 1.300 de angaja\u0163i.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u00cen ciuda originii modeste, pasiunea pentru croitorie a designerului Crist\u00f3bal Balenciaga a \u00eenvins orice impediment. C\u00e2nd al\u0163i copii se jucau cu p\u0103pu\u015file, cu s\u0103biile sau cu solda\u0163ii de plumb, el \u201ese juca\u201d cu acul de cusut \u015fi p\u00e2nza de m\u0103tase. Astfel, a reu\u015fit s\u0103 ajung\u0103 unul dintre cei mai aprecia\u0163i creatori de mod\u0103 din toate timpurile, deopotriv\u0103 \u00een r\u00e2ndul familiilor nobiliare, al celorlal\u0163i designeri, dar \u015fi al publicului larg. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[510],"tags":[33141,15679,5453,553,14111,10007,215,18372,7515,17570,6481,4999,5239,8690,86,31917,25663,13572],"class_list":["post-178127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actualitate","tag-ajutare","tag-apreciere","tag-casa","tag-copii","tag-deces","tag-designer","tag-designeri","tag-familii","tag-madrid","tag-mama","tag-moda","tag-paris","tag-pasiune","tag-public","tag-reusita","tag-rol","tag-soldati","tag-victorie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}