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Cristóbal Balenciaga
Spatial Construction
Geometry as faith
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Geometry as faith
Cristóbal Balenciaga
FAS–ARC–BAL
Geometry as faith
Index Code:
FAS–ARC–BAL
Orgin:
Getaria, Spain / Paris, France
Field Notes:
geometry as faith · volume as architecture · restraint as grace
Defining Moment:
1951 — Sack dress and sculptural silhouettes redefined modern form

Cristóbal Balenciaga

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1917 – 1968
 )
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Balenciaga built fashion as sacred geometry.

Collars rose like altars, volumes unfolded like domes.

Every garment obeyed a spiritual logic of balance and light.

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In his world, form was reverence — beauty an act of discipline.

Structural Focus

Body as Measure

Human scale, movement, or wear calibrates the work. Proportion is felt physically rather than visually alone.

In Cristóbal Balenciaga’s work, this approach appears where couture form reduces decoration to structural volume and proportion.

Position

Body as Measure

Human scale, movement, or wear calibrates the work. Proportion is felt physically rather than visually alone.

In Cristóbal Balenciaga’s work, this approach appears where couture form reduces decoration to structural volume and proportion.
Surface & Structure
Surface and structure operate as a unified, interdependent system.
Systems of Clarity
Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.
Material
Material behavior governs form through weight, resistance, and constraint.
Proportion
Proportion organizes coherence through measured intervals, scale, and relation.
Structure
Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.
Fashion
Form is constructed around the body through material, proportion, and movement.
Contemporary
Current practice engages inherited structures under present conditions.
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Structual Relations
The following practices are connected through shared structural decisions in form, material, and spatial logic.

By Structural Focus

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How are these related?
Quiet Modernism relates practices through how form is organized rather than how it appears. Connections emerge through shared structural conditions — such as repetition, constraint, spatial organization, material behavior, or duration — even when outcomes differ.

A single grouping may reflect multiple overlapping structural concerns.
Phoebe Philo
Femininity as structure
Pieter Mulier
Sensuality as continuity

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