Pierre Balmain was born on 18th May, 1914, in
the village of Saint Jean in the French province of Savoye. He was an only
child and his father who was a shopkeeper, had high hopes for him.
In 1932 he went to art school in Paris to study architecture
but his heart was not in his studies. Even after he was designing buildings,
he surrounded his sketches with designs for dresses. It was not long
before he decided to work with chiffon
and wool than with steel and concrete. He took some of his dressing designs to Molyneux,
one of the leading couturiers (fashion dress-makers) of Paris and
Molyneux was so impressed...continue
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