BRINGING BALENCIAGA Back To Life

The costume designer behind Cristóbal Balenciaga, the new series chronicling the Spanish couturier's rise to sartorial stardom in the 20th century, reveals how she recreated the magic for OTT

- HANNAH BANKS-WALKER

HOW DO YOU DISTIL a 30-year career that forever changed fashion into six episodes of television? This was the question facing the creators of Cristóbal Balenciaga, an original drama series that released on Disney+ in January. Inspired by the life and work of its titular character, the series spans five decades, beginning in the 1970s as Balenciaga - notoriously publicity-shy - agrees to give an interview to Prudence Glynn, a journalist who became the very first fashion editor at The Times.