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The exhibition "Balenciaga through the lace 'can be seen at the museum getaria until September 18

The couturier Cristobal Balenciaga Getaria was the one who shot to fame lace, fine material used massively and with which launched several collections in Paris. In the treatment of this material creativity, art, craft and innovation capacity, values ​​demonstrated Balenciaga, merge so the Museum Getaria, in collaboration with the Internationale Cite de la Dentelle et de la Mode Calais (France), presents the exhibition Balenciaga, through the lace, which will run until September 18. In addition, it is the first international co-production of the museum, which this year celebrates five years and also has the support of Donostia 2016 thanks to the Conversations project.

The exhibition, curated by Catherine Join-Dieterle, is divided into three rooms and highlights the importance of lace in the creations of Balenciaga, who explored all options giving the material, creating cocktail dresses, gala, and even stoles , blankets and hats. Nothing access the shows, visitors can see the first clad in which the couturier used guipuzcoano lace. "His first creations are in tulle and black color, in playing with transparency," said Igor Uria, director of collections and curator of the Museum Balenciaga exposure associated with Shazia Boucher, curator of the Museum of Calais. Yesterday, during the tour, they stressed that Balenciaga showed that lace can be at different times of the day. "There is a blouse with lace for the day, but also developed a wool suit with lace," said Uria.

Three halls full of fashion

The exhibition has three educational areas where the public can touch the material or try on some designs

The first room shows the different ways in which Balenciaga used this material as a lace dress that has an embroidery made with gimp or other dress floral motif getting a very accomplished by folding the lace. "In World War II, he was forced to reduce the use of lace, because it was used massively; then created pieces with tulle, which added zigzag lace strips "Boucher said, referring to another piece.

In the second room, visitors can learn the use of lace depending on the social coding, and respecting the rules for every occasion. For example, the room contains several models dressed and made up jackets as they could not go to cocktail parties with bare shoulders. "In addition, it exhibits a large collection of cocktail dresses that have ties to give points of light" Uria said. There are also supplements made with lace, such as hats and caps, shawls, stoles and sleeves.

Finally, in the third room there are spectacular evening dresses of all styles, from some that make the silhouette to other much bulkier. It is also planned in this room a video that shows how the lace manufactures machines, and applications that had this material. "We show unique dresses that have an opaque background, which have been added lace cuts," said Boucher.

The Balenciaga Museum is developing its educational project, with this new exhibition has also been reinforced. Visitors not only observe the sample pieces, they can get their hands on different types of lace, photographs and play with different silhouettes to create dresses(formal gowns) and even try on reproductions of two designs of Balenciaga. "We want to reinforce a culture of fashion," said Miren Vives, director of the museum, who noted that pedagogy is becoming increasingly important in the middle.

Shazia Boucher, meanwhile, said that collaboration has been "a wonderful adventure" and recalled that the sample was in 2015 in Calais, where the French government called it a national interest. "This exhibition shows especially the modernity of Balenciaga's work, something that new generations are very sensitive, so it is an important legacy," said French.