#cristobal balenciaga
Hiroshi Sugimoto - Stylized Sculpture 117: designer Cristóbal Balenciaga (2007). Gelatin silver print.
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Hiro (3 November 1930 - 15 August 2021)
By the time Yasuhiro Wakabayashi came to New York in 1954, he’d already set his sights on working for either Richard Avedon or Irving Penn.
Arriving from Japan, by way of China, “Hiro,” as he came to be known, first encountered fashion photography after World War II while working at an American hotel, where he used to wait for visitors to toss their magazines in the garbage so he could get a glimpse at the glossy images.
After a few classes at the School of Modern Photography, in 1956, he achieved his dream of assisting Avedon. An introduction to Alexey Brodovitch, the esteemed art director of Harper’s Bazaar, soon followed.
Seeing the originality of Hiro’s colorful, graphic aesthetic, Brodovitch hired him as a staff photographer in 1957, a post he kept for decades.
Kelly Stewart , New York, Negative 1994, print 2011. Hiro/The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Purchased with funds provided by the Photographs Council.
Black Evening Dress in Flight, New York. Negative 1963, print 1994. Hiro/Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Cristóbal Balenciaga evening dress, black gazar, 1967. Photograph by Hiro Wakabayashi for Harper’s Bazaar.
Foot Series #8 with Ant, New York, 1982" (1982, printed 2015). Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Elsa Peretti gold bone cuff, taken in 1984. Credit: Hiro/Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
“Harry Winston Necklace, New York, 1963” (1963, printed 1990). Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Rolling Stones, 1976, “Black and Blue” Album Cover Artwork by Hiro.
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Cristobal Balenciaga, Infanta dress, a modernist interpretation of the dresses worn by the Infanta Margarita in Velázquez’s celebrated portraits, 1939.
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Ilustración inspirada en Cristóbal Balenciaga. Modelo en vestido cóctel con encaje pintado y bordados, fotografiada por Henry Clarke.
En la galería de imágenes podéis comprobar la sublime belleza de la fotografía original.
Coat
Cristobal Balenciaga
House of Balenciaga
1927
Straight, mid-calf coat, based on the shape of a triangle. The large collar, crossover lapel, long sleeves and cuffs are decorated with ermine fur.
In this coat, made in San Sebastian, Balenciaga evoked the lines that define the Japanese kimono, one of the most influential garments in European fashion of the twenties. In perfect tune with the aesthetics of those years, the wide turndown collar and the sleeve cuffs were adorned with ermine fur.
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