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Balenciaga, Cristóbal

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Balenciaga, Cristóbal (1895–1972)

Spanish couturier. His influential innovations in women's clothing included drop shoulder lines, nipped-in waists, and rounded hips, followed by three-quarter length sleeves and the pillbox hat. During the 1950s–1960s he moved away from fitted outfits to show loose designs such as a dress known as the ‘sack’ (cut full around the body and gathered or tapered into a narrow hem-band just below the knees) in 1956 and loose full jackets in the 1960s. He retired in 1968.



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