Cristóbal Balenciaga, every mention

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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Cristóbal Balenciaga comes up

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▶ 14:10 David Senra Like I've read biographies of Christian Dior and Coco Chanel and Balenciaga and Ralph Lauren.

▶ 1:33:27 David Senra It sounds funny, but one of the most impressive entrepreneurs I've ever studied is Balenciaga, which is episode three, 15. 4 times in the scene

▶ 6:55 David Senra It is like a 15, I think it has 15 chapters on some of history's greatest creators, so people like Picasso, Walt Disney, Balenciaga, Christian Dior, Shakespeare, Mark Twain.
▶ 18:47 David Senra He's got a, he talks about Balenciaga. 4 times in the scene
▶ 33:25 David Senra So I'd buy Paul Johnson's book, Creators, and I'd read chapter 13, which is on Balenciaga and Dior.

▶ 5:45 David Senra And so this idea of cutting against the bias, to use the term that Balenciaga used last week, 2 times in the scene
▶ 24:16 David Senra That reminded me of, uh, last week with Balenciaga was like this with other fashion designers. 2 times in the scene

▶ 0:00 David Senra Of all the creative people I've come across, Balenciaga was easily the most dedicated to the business of making beautiful things. 10 times in the scene
▶ 2:37 David Senra Balenciaga at age three and a half, he joins her class and he winds up showing immediately astonishing skill with a needle. 6 times in the scene
▶ 5:09 David Senra Back to Balenciaga's early life. 18 times in the scene
▶ 7:16 David Senra Uh, in 1919, so that mean Balenciaga's about 24 at this time, 22 times in the scene
▶ 10:35 David Senra It was the opposite of like that when Balenciaga was running it himself. 7 times in the scene
▶ 13:10 David Senra So he's, he's closed down for a year or two. 6 times in the scene
▶ 14:07 David Senra Industry-specific talent tends to cluster in the same physical location, and this is important because both Dior and Balenciaga would insist on the very best, like, subcontractors, the people actually producing, like, the materials that…
▶ 23:55 David Senra Now we go back to Balenciaga. 22 times in the scene
▶ 25:57 David Senra Balenciaga had a religious level devotion to his craft. 22 times in the scene
▶ 28:54 David Senra His fundamental principle as a dressmaker. 24 times in the scene
▶ 32:34 David Senra He's making it and not even telling people that he did it. 10 times in the scene
▶ 34:42 David Senra He found the word trendy abhorrent. 8 times in the scene

▶ 2:36 David Senra Okay, so what this book is, is a collection of essays on some of history's greatest creators, people like Mark Twain, Shakespeare, Christian Dior, Balenciaga, Victor Hugo, T.S.
▶ 51:16 David Senra You know, uh, Dior, the chapter on Dior and Balenciaga or whatever you're interested in.

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