Live Auction 5340Interiors - 20th Century Edition including Modern Design, Art, Fashion & Prints
BALENCIAGA COUTURE
Lot 152

BALENCIAGA COUTURE

A CURVED WOOL SUIT

Closed16 September 2008

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GBP 1,750

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BALENCIAGA COUTURE
A CURVED WOOL SUIT
circa 1964, black and grey tweed, the jacket in a blouson shape to the back
28in. waist
Labelled, numbered indistinctly (2)

Specialist note

Jouve and Demornex, 'Balenciaga,' for very similar models. Golbin and Baron, 'Balenciaga Paris,' pp. 102, for similar.

Balenciaga revisited the curved back several times from the 1940s through the 1960s. This example exhibits the cropped jacket of the early 1960s.