Suit
Design House House of Balenciaga French
Designer Cristobal Balenciaga Spanish
Not on view
In 1952, Balenciaga introduced the first silhouette that fully and successfully challenged the New Look. By the 1950s, there were many who saw post-war Parisian couture as a battle between two creative titans, Dior and Balenciaga. Attempts by Norman Norell and others to launch an unwaisted silhouette in the late 1940s were unsuccessful; Balenciaga alone had the power to propose and impose a thoroughly different profile.
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