Museum at FIT - Drape a Cape Week: Cristóbal Balenciaga (Happy Birthday!!!) worked with Swiss textile firm Abraham to develop gazar fabric, a “screen-wire-like transparent stiff silk.” Gazar could be molded, enabling
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Cristóbal Balenciaga (Spain, active France, 1895-1972), Woman's Evening Gown and Cape, 1963 - Photo de Fashion - Balenciaga - Alain.R.Truong
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1961 Maggi Eckardt wearing a Cristóbal Balenciaga dress and cape, photographed by Tom Kublin for Harper's Bazaar, November 1961 - Viste la Calle
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