biography
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Balenciaga, Cristóbal
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pronunciation:
[balenthiahga]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1895–1972)
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| biography:
| Fashion designer, born in Guetaria, N Spain. He trained as a tailor, and in 1915 opened dressmaking and tailoring shops of his own in Madrid and Barcelona. He left Spain for Paris in 1937 because of the Spanish Civil War, and became a fashion designer, producing clothes noted for dramatic simplicity and elegant design. He retired in 1968. |
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