Balenciaga

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Balenciaga (/bəˌlɛnsiˈɑːɡə/ bə-LEN-see-AH-gə Spanish: [balenˈθjaɣa]) is a luxury fashion house founded in 1917 by Spanish designer Cristóbal Balenciaga in San Sebastian, Spain and currently based in Paris.[1] Balenciaga had a reputation as a couturier of uncompromising standards and was referred to as "the master of us all" by Christian Dior. His bubble skirts and odd, feminine, yet "modernistic" silhouettes became the trademarks of the house. Balenciaga closed in 1972 and was reopened under new ownership in 198

Balenciaga was acquiredbby the French multinational holding company Kering in 2001.[2] In early-October 2015, the brand announced Demna Gvasalia as its new creative director.

Controversy

In February 2017, James Scully, an industry casting director — one of a number of professionals who screen and select models for runway shows, ad campaigns and magazine photo shoots, with and on behalf of designers — took to the platform to accuse Maida Gregori Boina and Rami Fernandes, a prominent pair of fellow casting directors, of mistreating models and subjecting them to what he called traumatizing conditions during the casting process for the fall Balenciaga show.[3]

Based on reports from what he described as “a number of girls,” he wrote that Ms. Boina and Mr. Fernandes “made over 150 girls wait in a stairwell told them they would have to stay over 3 hours to be seen and not to leave. In their usual fashion they shut the door went to lunch and turned off the lights.” He also accused the Creative Director of Balenciaga, Demna Gvasalia, and fashion house Lanvin of specifically requesting not “to be presented with women of color,” which he said he had been told by “several agents.”[4]

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