El enigma Balenciaga

Cristóbal Balenciaga was not seen at his shows nor did he ever come out to say hello after they finished. If we pay attention to the legend, the Basque designer followed in detail the passes through a discreet hole made in the velvet curtains that decorated his house. There are hardly any portraits of him, and there was even a rumor that the invisible man of haute couture was nothing more than an invention, a cunningly crafted commercial strategy. What there is no doubt is that "the best designer of all time" -as recognized by Christian Dior or Coco Chanel- always put prestige before fame and was the creator of an immortal work, almost as great as the mystery that still exists. today it involves his biography. This book is an original immersion in an exceptional and unrepeatable figure. María Fernández-Miranda dresses in the skin of the master and offers us a multifaceted portrait in eight scenes that elegantly draw her sentimental and creative geography. A map of landscapes, colors, fabrics and fragrances that takes us from the steep streets of his native Guetaria to the sophisticated Parisian avenues that starred in the golden age of haute couture, inviting us to reveal the Balenciaga enigma.