Vogue on Cristobal Balenciaga

Vogue on Designers is a new series of fashion books from British Vogue which tell the fascinating stories of iconic designers accompanied by world-class photographs and illustrations from the Vogue archive.

Balenciaga was 'the master of us all' according to Christian Dior and from the Thirties onwards, a profound influence on twentieth-century fashion. His innovative designs were famously easy to wear: in the Fifties he revolutionized women's silhouette, experimented with the semi-fitted shape, the sack dress, the cocoon and the 'babydoll'; in the Sixties came the bold fluid lines of some of his most visionary designs. Something of an enigma, he preferred to let his clothes speak for themselves and aided by iconic images from photographers such as Irving Penn and Cecil Beaton, Vogue on Cristobal Balenciaga records their eloquence.

British Vogue has charted the careers of designers through the decades. Its unique archive of photographs, taken by the leading photographers of the day from Cecil Beaton to Mario Testino, and original illustrations, together with its stable of highly respected fashion writers, make British Vogue the most authoritative and prestigious source of reference on fashion. With a circulation of over 160,000 and a readership of over 1,400,000, no brand is better positioned to present a library on the great fashion designers of the modern age.

Other titles in the series:
Vogue on: Vivienne Westwood
Vogue on: Ralph Lauren
Vogue on: Hubert de Givenchy
Vogue on: Elsa Schiaparelli
Vogue on: Coco Chanel
Vogue on: Christian Dior
Vogue on: Alexander McQueen