{"id":92,"date":"2017-02-15T21:39:37","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T21:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/paris-refashioned\/?p=92"},"modified":"2017-04-11T15:37:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T15:37:20","slug":"balenciaga-and-givenchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/paris-refashioned\/balenciaga-and-givenchy\/","title":{"rendered":"Balenciaga and Givenchy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/paris-refashioned\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2017\/02\/ParisRefashioned_21.jpg\" alt=\"ParisRefashioned_21\" width=\"467\" height=\"700\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-93\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/paris-refashioned\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2017\/02\/ParisRefashioned_21.jpg 467w, https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/paris-refashioned\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2017\/02\/ParisRefashioned_21-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/paris-refashioned\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2017\/02\/ParisRefashioned_21-173x260.jpg 173w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\" \/>Hubert de Givenchy met Crist\u00f3bal Balenciaga in 1953, two years after Givenchy opened his couture house. Although Givenchy never formally apprenticed under Balenciaga, the elder couturier became his mentor, informing his business decisions and his aesthetic. <\/p>\n<p>By the early 1960s, fashion critics had begun to complain that Givenchy was relying too heavily on styles pioneered by Balenciaga. Nevertheless, both couturiers continued to be enormously successful, and each had a large clientele in France and the United States. These voluminous coats, owned by the American heiress Doris Duke, reveal that the designers shared ideas as well as clients.<\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<div style=\"padding-top: 20px; margin-left: 10px; font-size:11px; text-align: left;\">\n<strong>Left:<\/strong> coat by Hubert de Givenchy, circa 1958<br \/>\n<strong>Right:<\/strong> coat by Crist\u00f3bal Balenciaga, circa 1957<br \/>\nPhoto by Eileen Costa. \u00a9 2017 The Museum at FIT\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 20px; margin-left: 10px; font-size:11px; text-align: left;\"><em>Paris Refashioned, 1957-1968<\/em> runs through April 15, 2017 at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fitnyc.edu\/museum\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">The Museum at FIT<\/a> in NYC.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hubert de Givenchy met Crist\u00f3bal Balenciaga in 1953, two years after Givenchy opened his couture house. Although Givenchy never formally apprenticed under Balenciaga, the elder couturier became his mentor, informing his business decisions and his aesthetic. By the early 1960s, fashion critics had begun to complain that Givenchy was relying too heavily on styles pioneered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[12,13],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-objects","tag-cristobal-balenciaga","tag-hubert-de-givenchy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/paris-refashioned\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/paris-refashioned\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/paris-refashioned\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/paris-refashioned\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/paris-refashioned\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/paris-refashioned\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/paris-refashioned\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/paris-refashioned\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/paris-refashioned\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}