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Balenciaga (/ b ə ˌ l ɛ n s i ˈ ɑː ɡ ə / bə-LEN-see-AH-gə [1]) is a Spanish luxury fashion line that was founded in 1919 by Spanish couturier Cristóbal Balenciaga in San Sebastián. Balenciaga produces ready-to-wear footwear, handbags, and accessories, and licenses its name and branding to Coty for fragrances. [2] It is owned by the ...
Kering ( French: [kɛːʁiŋ]) is a French-based multinational corporation specializing in luxury goods. It owns the brands Gucci, Balenciaga, Bottega Veneta, Yves Saint Laurent, Creed and Alexander McQueen . The timber-trading company Pinault S.A. was founded in 1962, by François Pinault. After the company was quoted on Euronext Paris in 1988 ...
François-Henri Pinault (French: [fʁɑ̃swa ɑ̃ʁi pino]; born 28 May 1962 [1]) is a French businessman, the son of billionaire François Pinault.François-Henri took the reins of his father's retail conglomerate Pinault-Printemps-Redoute in 2005, and turned it into the luxury group Kering (Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, Balenciaga, Bottega Veneta) in 2013.
After his death in 1972, the brand lay dormant for 14 years, until it was bought by French perfume and cosmetics company Jacques Bogart SA and started introducing ready-to-wear lines (a concept ...
Cristóbal Balenciaga Eizaguirre ( Basque: [kɾisˈtoβal βalens̻iaɣa eis̻aɣire]; 21 January 1895 – 23 March 1972) was a Spanish fashion designer, and the founder of the Balenciaga clothing brand. He had a reputation as a couturier of uncompromising standards and was referred to as "the master of us all" by Christian Dior and as "the ...
Balenciaga has entered the South American market. Today it will unveil its first retail outpost in Brazil at JK Iguatemi, the mall in the financial heart of Sao Paulo. Measuring at 1,948 square ...
Demna (designer) Demna Gvasalia ( Georgian: დემნა გვასალია dem-NAH gvah-SAH-lee-AH; born 25 March 1981), known as Demna [2] ( / dɛmnʌ / dem-NAH) is a Georgian fashion designer, currently the creative director of Balenciaga and the co-founder of Vetements. [3]
François Pinault (born 21 August 1936) is a French billionaire businessman, founder of the luxury group Kering and the investment holding company Artémis . Pinault started his business in the timber industry in the early 1960s. Taken public in 1988, his company invested in specialty store chains and changed its name to Pinault-Printemps ...