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The name "Balensiaga" - the well-known fashionable house under the guidance of Kristobalja Balensiaga - is known to all professionals of the fashionable industry. However, since the master has departed from affairs in 1968, and then has left this world in 1972, the glory of the house gradually began to die away, while to the beginning 90 about it have not forgotten absolutely.

However the legend lived. And revival of the well-known name has appeared pertinent spent the XX-th centuries.

It till now consider as the great couturier of XX century K.Balensiaga in 1950th was one of recognised leaders of haute couture who dressed the most brilliant and elegant women. But its approach to modelling was full contrast to sights at K.Diora's fashion.

Balensiaga did not aspire, as Dior, often to change a silhouette. Its clients (sometimes the same, as at Diora, — Marlene Dietrich, the duchess Windsor, and also the princess of Monaco Grejs, Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis, Mona a background Bismarck, Elizabeth Taylor, etc.) could carry dresses and suits from "Balensiaga" on mnogu years, not being afraid, that they will get out of fashion.

When in 1968 he has decided to close the house of haute couture, the present agiotage has begun — some clients ordered models for the future - for some years forward, not representing as they can do without creations «great Balensiaga».

It did not apply for dressing all world, preferring to create refined models for the elite.
K.Balensiaga's haute couture considered as art: «the Couturier should be the architect of a cut, the artist of colour, the sculptor of the form, the musician of harmony and the philosopher of style».

Its models compared to works of art for perfection of lines, restraint and mysteriousness of images and a magnificent cut, they were not subject to whims of a seasonal fashion.
But at this K.Balensiaga perfectly well owned craft "haute couture" — was able to create models a headdress method, to cut, perfectly knew all seams, secrets correct utjuzhki and furnish etc.

In each collection necessarily was one or two models which it sewed with own hand from the beginning and up to the end. He cut so masterly, that a fabric for model ordered to within centimetre.

Its revolutionary silhouettes have defined a new epoch in a fashion: there has come an era essentially other mutual relations of clothes with a body. Its opening in the field of a cut and silhouette construction named «by miracle Balensiagi». It has released a body and has simultaneously built a rigid architectural line which was read on distance and at the same time did not hold down movements. But, possibly, not only it became pledge of its grandiose success. In its clothes there was a drama, present Spanish, severe and full of passion. A drama which so lacked women of post-war Europe.

Kristobal Balensiaga was born in 1895г. In Guetarija in Basque Provinces. In 1919 has opened with the help of the marchioness de Cash desk-torres salon in Dignity Sebastjane.

Since 1931 members of royal family were its clients. In 1933 together with Pedro Rodriguez has opened the fashion House in Madrid «Eisa», in 1935 – in Barcelona. In 1936 during civil war in Spain Balensiaga has left to London, in 1937 has got over to Paris where has opened haute couture House.

In the late thirties has offered refined stylisations on a theme of a historical suit. For unsurpassed skill and feeling of the form, ability to open possibility of each fabric and brilliant talent of stylisation, journalists named it «Kristobal Magnificent».

Its models compared to suits on portraits of great Spanish artists of the past — Koelo and Surbarana, Velaskesa and Goji, but thus they always were modern.

Interest to a historical suit helped Balensiaga to work fruitfully for theatre and cinema. In its relation to clothes traditions of Spain — severity and restraint, especially in relation to a body which is always latent by clothes were felt.
Balensiaga considered, that the woman dressed in a dress which only hardly that is hidden under it hints is much more attractive, instead of parades all. Balensiaga never used false busts and unprofitable hips, as much as possible opening plastic possibilities of each material.

Thanks to it the fashion included ratteen, a boucle and a tweed for a coat and jackets, a taffeta in a combination to a velvet, moire, rogozhka, reaped fabrics of type a shred. Collections Balensiaga always were very constrained and found, "Spanish" on colour: favourite colour was black, it supplemented white, brown and dark green.

In 1958 Balensiaga has been awarded by an award of the Honourable legion. In 1986 the licence on pret-and-port and spirits Balensiaga was bought by the French stylist and businessman Jacque Konke who has revived mark "Balensiaga". Designers of mark have visited both M.Goma, and Z.M.Timister.

Since 1997 and on present time, the creative director, the inspirer and the designer of mark "Balensiaga" is Nikolja Gesker.