Two dresses, 235 hours of work, endless history: Everything you need to know about the Balenciaga recreations at Vogue World: Paris.
“The master of us all,” is how Christian Dior once described Cristóbal Balenciaga, the rare couturier who could construct a garment from start to finish. Born in the coastal village of Getaria, this precocious talent worked locally under the patronage of the Marquesa de Casa Torres before establishing his own house, Elsa, father afield in Barcelona and Madrid.
As “Demna wanted it to be as close to the original piece as possible,” the maison reported, a canvas toile was made before the final garment, which took 135 hours to make, a good portion of which was devoted to the intricate fringing. First a single layer of the trim was set “into a seam twisting around the dress,” then two more were hand-applied under the seam to create a luxurious effect. But that’s not all.
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