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Cristóbal Balenciaga, Sack Dress, 1958.

Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion
  • Matthew Linde


28 Sep 2019
Bendigo Art Gallery 17 Aug - 10 Sep 2019

I was staying with Mona Bismarck in Capri when the news came. I was downstairs, dressed for dinner, having a drink. Consuelo Crespi telephoned me from Rome, saying it had just come over the radio that Balenciaga had closed his doors forever that afternoon, and that he'd never open them again. Mona didn't come out of her room for three days. I mean, she went into a complete…I mean, it was the end of a certain part of her life!

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