A soon-to-be-released biography of Cristóbal Balenciaga, called The Master of Us All: Balenciaga, His Workrooms, His World by Mary Blume, paints a new picture of the enigmatic designer who gave exactly one interview in his 74 years. While all of the tidbits printed in a WWD preview were intriguing, this was particularly surprising:
"I was fascinated to learn that he really liked to work on rather fat bodies," Blume says.
In Blume's book, there is a photo of Balenciaga fitting fabric magnate Gustav Zumsteg's wife, Hulda, "who must have weighed about 200 pounds." The book also include[s] photos of Balenciaga's greatest innovations: the twin-seamed sleeve, the melon sleeve, the sack dress, the baby-doll dress, the dress with a short-in-front, long-in-back hemline, the balloon dress and the wedding dress with a coal-scuttle headdress.
Via: Balenciagas History of Dressing Fat Women
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