Museum at FIT - Drape a Cape Week: Cristóbal Balenciaga (Happy Birthday!!!) worked with Swiss textile firm Abraham to develop gazar fabric, a “screen-wire-like transparent stiff silk.” Gazar could be molded, enabling
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🖤 Caped in black 🖤 . Cristóbal Balenciaga's dress and cape in black shantung, model Barbara Mullen photographed by Henry … | Mullen, Model, Cristóbal balenciaga
Cristobal Balenciaga (1895–1972) | Essay | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
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A marvelous Cristóbal Balenciaga cape and dress ensemble, 1949. #vintage #1940s #fashion #capes | Vintage couture, Cape fashion, 1940s women
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