Pierre Balmain
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1914
- Died
- 1982
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Pierre Balmain
- Pierre Balmain, 40 années de création
- My years and seasons
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Film & TV
Costume & Make-Up · Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, France
Pierre Alexandre Claudius Balmain (18 May 1914 – 29 June 1982) was a French fashion designer and founder of leading post-war fashion house Balmain. Known for sophistication and elegance, he described the art of dressmaking as "the architecture of movement." Balmain's father, who died when the future designer was seven, owned a wholesale drapery business. His mother, Françoise, ran a fashion…
Known for
- Samedi soir — Self1971
- World in Action1963
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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- Outline of a Theory of Practice
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- Testing for a unit root in time series regression
· 1988 · cited 12,492x
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Key dates
- Born
- 18 May 1914
- Died
- 5 July 1982
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Pierre
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne
- Place of death
- Neuilly-sur-Seine
- Occupation
- fashion designer
- Languages spoken
- French
- Student of
- Edward Molyneux
- Field of work
- fashion design