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Cristobal Balenciaga Biography, Life, Interesting Facts

Cristóbal Balenciaga Eizaguirre was a renowned Spanish Basque fashion designer.January 21, , he founded the Balenciaga fashionhouse. He gained interest in tailoring during his childhood days, as he spent time much with her mother who was a seamstress. Picking up the profession, Balenciaga highly refined it with great skills becoming one of the few couturiers could trim, design and sew with his hands.

Cristobal Balenciaga was highly revered by some top fashion designers including Christian Dior and Coco Chanel and many other. Balenciaga earned the alias King of Fashion for his high-quality works.

Early Life

Cristóbal Balenciaga Eizaguirre was born on January 21, , in Getaria in Spain to Martina Eizaguirre Embil and José Balenciaga Basurto. His mother was a seamstress, and as a child, he spent much time with her when working.

He gained interest in his mother’s profession, and at the age of 12, he began an apprenticeship with a tailor. Balenciaga was highly skille

This blog is by Anne-Margaux Illido, a postgraduate student in Art History and Museum Curating at the University of Sussex, currently completing a placement at the V&A with Zorian Clayton and Dawn Hoskin from the LGBTQ Adj Group.

When discussing the LGBTQ-related topics I could address in a blog post, I was drawn towards the current V&A exhibition Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion to further explore how the fantastic designer’s sexuality may have deeply influenced his design and production.

Cristóbal Balenciaga () was private and enigmatic, and his “religious convictions made him a very prudent and humble person” according to fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy.[1]  The ‘master’ allowed few common appearances, however, the people next to to him knew about his homosexuality and the relationships he developed with some of his male business partners.

During his lifetime, Balenciaga had several love affairs with men, notably with his two main milliners, Ramon Esparza, and Wladzio Jawrorowski d’Attainville, with whom he had his most intense relationship, professionally as

Fashion History: Cristóbal Balenciaga

Cristóbal Balenciaga,

CristóbalBalenciagawas a brilliant fashion designer at his peak in the post-WWII years of the s. He was known for highly tailored and beautiful evening gowns, as well as daywear and dresses without waistlines--but by no means shapeless. his works are still considered to be wearable art.

Balenciaga was born on January 21, in the fishing village of Getaria, Spain.
Jose Balenciaga Basurto and Martina Eisaguirre, s.

Balenciaga grew up quite close to his mother. After the death of his father in , and at the age of eleven, Cristóbal spent time with his seamstress mother, often helping her sew as she supported herself and her son.

Martina Eisaguirre Embil

Enjoying the act of sewing, Cristóbal went on to apprentice as a tailor at the age of twelve.

His perform was noticed by a Noblewoman, the Marchioness de Casa Torres, Carolina Herrera.

Herrera was so taken with Balenciaga’s work that she sent him to Madrid to be formally trained, and became his patron. Herrera would often proudly wear his results.

The most famous Basque gay: Cristobal Balenciaga


Born in the small fishermen town of Getaria in January 21st , he started sewing at 13 years old, and when he was 20 he already have kings and high society amongst his clients. 




When searching information for this post, I found an very well written report by a top gay present day writer called Mr Boris Izaguirre. He wrote about him in Vanity Fair in Spanish and I believe his description is worthy to be taken here:


"Balenciaga lived openly as a gay in Paris at the end of the 30s. In fact, the biggest love in his life, who was Wladzio d'Attainville a French-Polish aristocrat, helped him to find the money to uncover a haute couture shop there. If Balenciaga had the rigours and actitude from the aristocrat although he was the son of a fisherman and a dressmaker, Wladzio was a accurate aristocrat whose wisdom impressed the couturier. They both lived together since their time in San Sebastian, where they share an appartment with the mother of Balenciaga. One of the dressmakers, Elisa Erquiaga, explained it in an interview: &