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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]
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.
The traditional Balenciaga house was turned into a disruptive fashion house [32] and Yves Saint Laurent hit the 2-billion dollar sales mark in 2019. [33] However, from 2015 to 2022, the group's revenue was essentially driven by Gucci's year-on-year high performance, hitting the 10-billion dollars sales mark in 2022. [ 34 ]
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Demna was born in Georgia in 1981. [3] During the War in Abkhazia, and the accompanying ethnic cleansing of Georgians, 10-year-old Demna and his family had to flee Sukhumi following an attack by Russian-backed separatist forces, who destroyed his home in a bombing.
Salvatore (registered as "Salvadore") Ferragamo was born in 1898 [1] to a poor family in Bonito, in the Campania region of Italy, near Avellino, the eleventh of fourteen children of Antonio Ferragamo and Mariantonia Ferragamo (both had the same surname, which often happened in smaller Italian towns).
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]
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.