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 100 photographs 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.
