An exquisite photography book featuring the collaborative work of fashion photographer Tom
Kublin and renowned haute couture designer Cristóbal Balenciaga. This is the first book to
document the short yet prolific artistic career of fashion photographer and filmmaker Tom
Kublin and a celebration of his creative union with Cristóbal Balenciaga during the fashion
house's postwar heyday in Paris. More than 140 photographs and film stills by Kublin capture
the golden age of Balenciaga couture in the 1950s and 1960s from the impeccable elegance of
the collection shoots - including exclusive film footage of Balenciaga himself at work - to
striking covers and editorials for high-profile magazines. The book begins with a foreword
by the photographer's daughter María Kublin and continues with a biography by Ana Balda
charting Kublin's career his place in the artistic milieu of the European avant-garde and his
working relationship with Cristóbal Balenciaga. Miren Vives head of the Cristóbal Balenciaga
Museum also contributes. Additional texts come from the fashion industry professionals who
worked with and knew Kublin best: an interview with his partner and muse the model Katinka
Bleeker memories from the Italian fashion photographer Gian Paolo Barbieri who began his
career as Kublin's assistant in Paris in the 1960s and a piece by Lydia Slater
editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar UK who looks back on Kublin's work for the magazine at a
pivotal time in its history. Honouring the successes and innovations of Tom Kublin's stellar
career this book records for posterity his contribution to fashion photography and to the
iconography of the House of Balenciaga.
