Balenciaga - Kublin - A Fashion Record - Ana Balda

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Balenciaga - Kublin : A Fashion Record documents the work of a master couturier, Cristobal Balenciaga, at the peak of his career. Photographer and filmmaker Tom Kublin, a close friend of the designer, was granted rare access to the couture house. From 1953 to 1966 Kublin captured Balenciaga's iconic designs in the house's Paris salons, behind-the-scenes and in editorials for the era's leading magazines. Featuring more than 130 images and film stills, Balenciaga - Kublin is the first publication dedicated to this extraordinary creative collaboration. The book is writtn bu Ana Balda, a fashion lecturer, researcher and curator, and Maria Kublin, a curator and editor with a focus on fashion and photography, with text contributions by Miren Vives, director of the Cristobal Balenciaga Museum . the model Katinga Bleeker, who was Tom Kublin's partner and muse . the fashion photographer Gian Paolo Barbieri . and Lydia Slater, editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar UK.