Balenciaga in Black : The Black Work

 Balenciaga in Black explores the creative genius of Cristobal Balenciaga, the couturier s couturier the fashion designer revered by all other fashion designers. Black served as inspiration and guiding principal for the legendary dressmaker and provided a rich canvas for this extraordinary technician, allowing him to develop new textures and innovative shapes. To Balenciaga black was a vibrant material, alternately opaque or transparent, matte or shining, combined in sumptuous fabrics and undergirding the apparent simplicity of his cuts. Pierre Even s photography of Balenciaga s masterworks, produced specifically for this catalog, capture these subtle gradations in tone and lush details with contemporary precision.

• Format Hardback | 224 pages
• Dimensions 249 x 318 x 20.32mm | 1,224.7g
• Publication date 07 Jan 2019
• Publisher Rizzoli International Publications
• Publication City/Country New York, United States
• Language English
• Illustrations note 120 Colour and Black and White Illustrations
• ISBN10 0847866149
• ISBN13 9780847866144