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Cristóbal Balenciaga Eizaguirre (Spanish: [kɾisˈtoβal βalenˈθjaɣa ejθaˈɣire]; Basque: Cristobal Balentziaga Eizagirre [kɾis̺toβal βalents̻i.aɣa eis̻aɣire]; 21 January 1895 – 23 March 1972) was a Spanish fashion designer, and the founder of the Balenciaga clothing brand.
Balenciaga (/ b ə ˌ l ɛ n s i ˈ ɑː ɡ ə / bə-LEN-see-AH-gə, [1] Spanish: [balenˈθjaɣa], Basque: [balents̻i.aɣa]) is a French luxury fashion house headquartered in Paris.It designs, manufactures and markets ready-to-wear footwear, handbags, and accessories, and licenses its name and branding to Coty for fragrances. [2]
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The company was founded in 1927 by Salvatore Ferragamo in Florence, Italy. It went public on the Borsa Italiana in 2011, but the Ferragamo family has remained majority shareholders with approximately 65% stakes in the company. [2] British designer Maximilian Davis has been the creative director of Ferragamo since March 2022. [5]
Eddie August Schneider's (1911–1940) death certificate, issued in New York.. A death certificate is either a legal document issued by a medical practitioner which states when a person died, or a document issued by a government civil registration office, that declares the date, location and cause of a person's death, as entered in an official register of deaths.
Balenciaga is a surname from the Basque Country.Balenciaga is the Spanish language transliteration of the basque Balentziaga. Following Basque naming customs, the name is a toponymic meaning house or place of the whaler, referring to the patronymic house of a family originally devoted to whaling.
In July 2007, a specially written ballet was performed in La Scala, Milan to mark the 10th anniversary of the fashion designer's death. Thanks Gianni, With Love was put together by French choreographer Maurice Béjart, for whom Versace designed many stage costumes. In 2009, the Russian Versace fan club was founded. There are 1,500 members (July ...