c.1958 Green Museum Held Balenciaga Haute Couture Suit designer-malcolm-starr The fringed rows sit atop

The fringed rows sit atop each other in a layered pattern from top to bottom and the movement this creates every time you move is just fabulous

Ink black stretch silk crepe has been studded with tiny

It is made of a very very lightweight leather that is left unlined so is incredibly thin and more like a fabric then a leather

I suspect it was done to open a tight armhole opening

His pieces stripped away the niceties of the earlier decades and he gave classic lines a new tough edginess that was pure Montana

c.1958 Green Museum Held Balenciaga Haute Couture Suit designer-malcolm-starr The fringed rows sit atopThis wonderful Haute Couture suit is from the 1958 collection and comes from the closet of the original owner who commissioned it directly from the atelier. It's near twin is held in the collection of The Philadelphia Museum of Art with a slight variation on the skirt. Cristobal Balenciaga was known for his fine tailoring and sculptural approach to design and the restrained and refined lines of this suit showcase that aesthetic. Even Dior himself