Pierre Balmain grew up in a family environment loved by his parents. The whole family experienced the wholesale business of clothing and fabrics, which ensured his food and clothing. However, when Pierre Pierre Balmain was seven years old, his father died. In order to support the whole family, his mother opened a lovely boutique and managed it well.
At first, young Pierre Balmain was not interested in fashion design, but showed great enthusiasm for life and art, so he chose the prestigious Ecole des Beaux Arts to study architecture. During that period, PierreBalmain had a new thinking about lines and structures. Compared with fixed buildings, he raised a question: Why can't fashion look like a moving building? This is also the origin of his famous saying: dressing is a building of movement.
As a result, the images of fashionable women who went in and out of fashion boutiques at home appeared repeatedly in his mind, causing agitation. 1934, PierreBalmain joined the fashion house of British designer EdwardMolyneux in Paris without hesitation (Edward Molyneux was ahead of coco chanel and elsa schiaparelli in fashion at that time, creating a simple fashion style in 1930s). During his six years working for Edward Molyneux, Pierre Balmain got the essence of minimalism from Molyneux, which left a mark on his future design style. Besides, he has his own learning experience in architecture, which makes pierre balmain's design more powerful, experienced and contemporary than Molyneux's. This is why later generations call Edward Molyneux's greatest contribution to the fashion world: discovering and cultivating a generation of fashion designer Pierre Balmain.
Edward Molyneux was ahead of coco chanel and elsa schiaparelli in fashion, and they created a simple fashion style in 1930s.
1939 War spread, 1940 Paris fell. Edward Molyneux fled back to England early, while Pierre Balmain moved to Lucien Lelong, another famous Paris fashion house at that time, where he became a colleague with Chrisitian Dior, and had a close relationship. As time went on, they were tired of the company's over-commercialized design.
Lv Xian Lelong's perfume is all the rage. However, how does Lv Xian Lelong accommodate two epoch-making fashion designers? Pierre Balmain and Christian Dior had planned to create a fashion brand together, but they couldn't agree on whether the brand name was "Ba Erman Dior" or "Dior Ba Erman". They discussed whether to create their own brand.
Pierre Balmain, who has rich working experience in 1945, was the first to leave and founded his own brand of the same name in the same year. Christian dior left Lv Xian Lelong later than pierre balmain and founded the Dior brand on 1947. Lucien Lelong Fashion House closed down after two geniuses left, and the most experienced printmakers and Turner turned to Pierre Balmain and Christian Dior.
Pierre balmain's brand was founded by his mother and two friends. On June 2nd, 1945, 10, his first store opened in RueFrancois- 1er 45 (the address of the head office). On the same day, Pierre Balmain released 45 sets of ready-to-wear clothes, which won unanimous praise from the media and customers.
Up to 1948, Balmain brand has 352 employees (including 23 service directors, 2 chief salesmen 12, 8 second-class salesmen and 20 fitting models), and has 9 design studios and 3 stores, located in Avenue George-V and Rue Francois- 1er in Paris. At that time, only a few fashion brands such as Chris Tebar Valenciaga and christian dior had such a scale.
Pierre Pierre Balmain, Balenciaga and Dior are called "three outstanding figures in Europe".
1946 with the support of Paul Racine, pierre balmain entered the field of perfume. The first perfume was named "Elysee 6483", named after pierre balmain's telephone number.
Lysé es 64/83, 1946 The first perfume designed by pierre balmain.
1947, Pierre Balmain's "Vent Vert" perfume came out, which was recognized as the most successful perfume from the late 1940s to the early 1950s. Its popularity can only be compared with Chanel's No.5 perfume in the 1920s, while the "Miss Dior" perfume launched by christian dior in the same year was not as successful as "Ventvert". The following year, Pierre Balmain launched "Verveine Gitronnelle" with lemon verbena as the fragrance, and 1953 launched "Jolie Madame" perfume. At this time, Pierre Balmain Perfume Company has become a brand with many best-selling perfumes.
Pierre Balmain can always find the best time to launch the perfume that best suits the market taste, which has attracted the attention and favor of Revlon. 1960, Pierre Balmain sold his perfume company to Revlon for 1 ten thousand dollars. 1964, Revlon launched a perfume named "Mr. Ba Erman" named after pierre balmain, whose fragrance was exactly the same as that of "Verveine Gitronnelle" launched by 1948, which also attracted mixed comments. Some people say that this is a tribute to pierre balmain, while others say that this is obviously a fraud of Revlon.
1966, the perfume "Miss Ba Erman" came out. This perfume is regarded as a young version of "Mrs. Julie" perfume, which attracts more young ladies' love. 1979, "ivory coast" perfume came out. The Chinese translation of this perfume is "ivory", which is recognized as one of the top ten perfumes in the world.
Looking back at this period of history, it is not difficult to find that perfume accounted for a large proportion in pierre balmain's business, which was actually the key factor for the success of fashion designers at that time.
Fortunately, after Pierre Balmain initiated a new era of elegance for women after World War II, with the birth of outstanding young generations such as hubert de givenchy and Yves Sanit Laurent, the Paris fashion industry experienced unprecedented prosperity.
Pierre Balmain's fashion is not only admired by Hollywood stars such as Audrey Hepburn and Vivien Leigh, but also a model of royal private design.
That's why there was the later classic of pierre balmain Singapore Airlines uniform.
The stewardess uniform designed by Pierre Pierre Balmain for Singapore Airlines has become a beautiful scenery around the world.
In addition, he also has excellent taste in home decoration, and his mansion in Elbe Island is the best example. PierreBalmain seems to have never been troubled by funds from birth to career, so he is generous and extraordinarily generous. In fact, according to the record, he is also a pretty good amateur bel canto singer, and he sings Verdi's aria appropriately.
The innate elegance of the French, the steady lines in architectural aesthetics and the simple essence obtained from Edward Molyneux constitute Ba Erman's fashion design style. Therefore, Pierre Balmain is probably the only designer who can be simple, calm and elegant at the same time.
After a splendid life, pierre balmain passed away on1June 29th, 982. 1990 was finally bought by the United Banking Group organized by Alain Chevalier, the former chairman of LVMH Group, and 1995 was bought by Alain Chevalier, the current owner of Pierre Balmaine.
Pierre Balmain is the product of the integration of modernity, intellectuality and elegance, that is, "luxury fashion". The 20 10 series is about to debut again, and the familiar "Pierre Balmain" logo has returned to people's sight.
Pierre, Ba Erman, Ba Erman (-Alexander Claudius)
(19 14.5. 18, Paris, France ~ 1982.6.29).
French fashion designer. He gave up studying architecture and became a fashion designer for 1934. I worked with christian dior for a while, and after World War II, they became each other's strongest rivals in fashion. Ba Erman's designs, especially evening dresses, are famous for their high quality, especially the combination of femininity and elegance. His clients include movie stars and members of the royal family. He also opened branches in new york and Caracas and began to sell perfumes and accessories.
Pierre balmain's autobiography My Years and Seasons was published in 1964. 1On June 29th, 982, pierre balmain died in Paris.
After the death of Pierre Pierre Balmain, the torch of Ba Erman brand was passed to the famous designer Erik mortensen and the young Herve Pierre.