1960s Eisa Balenciaga Haute Couture White Cotton Dress Suit 1940s_coat This rare coated-silk shirt was

This rare coated-silk shirt was designed as part of Vivienne Westwood’s 2000 show “Summertime”

they showcase zig-zagging geometric forms woven to a 3D effect

As with most garments of this age

all four pieces have survived and this set includes

It is made up of folded velvet ribbon in wide bands made into a circular hat topper

1960s Eisa Balenciaga Haute Couture White Cotton Dress Suit 1940s_coat This rare coated-silk shirt wasThis elegant haute couture ensemble was made during the very early 1960s by Cristbal Balenciaga at his Spanish atelier and hence is labelled Eisa. Cristbal opened his first fashion house in San Sebastin, Spain, in 1917 and choose to honour his mother, a seamstress, by calling his house Eisa, a shortened version of his mothers maiden name Eisaguirre. He moved to Paris during the Spanish civil war and but later reopened and managed Eisa himself with the