Balmain
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Inaugural haute couture presentation, 1945
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The visual record is still being traced. It will appear here once found.
About this collection
Pierre Balmain opened his haute couture house with an untitled presentation of approximately 45–50 models. An archival invitation schedules a private press event on 18 September 1945, while his memoir and older institutional sources identify 12 October as the opening; the relationship between the dates remains unresolved.
