Elegance is elimination | Cristóbal Balenciaga, 1895-1972
“Elegance is elimination.”
Cristóbal Balenciaga
^ Cristóbal Balenciaga, 1950s / Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn in a Balenciaga coat ^
Cristóbal Balenciaga at the Balenciaga atelier in Paris, 1968 / Photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson
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“A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color,
a musician for harmony, and a philosopher for temperance.”
Cristóbal Balenciaga
“Today as I was working I could feel Balenciaga’s hand on my shoulder. He was saying: Subtract. Make it simple. Make it pure.”
Hubert de Givenchy
“He alone is capable of cutting fabric, of putting it together, of sewing it with his own hand. The others are just drawers!”
“For 20 years he was the prophet of nearly every major change in silhouette.”
“The master of us all”
Christian Dior
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