Balenciaga Kublin, the first book to document the shortyet prolific career of fashion photographer and filmmakerTom Kublin, celebrates his creative union with CristóbalBalenciaga during the fashion house's postwar heyday inParis. More than 140 photographs and film stills by Kublincapture the golden age of Balenciaga couture in the 1950sand 1960s, from the impeccable elegance of the collectionshoots including exclusive film footage of Balenciagahimself at work to striking covers and editorials for high-profile magazines.The book opens with a foreword by the photographer'sdaughter, Maria Kublin, and continues with a biographyby Ana Balda, charting Kublin's career, his place in theartistic milieu of the European avant-garde and his workingrelationship with Cristóbal Balenciaga. Miren Vives, headof the Cristóbal Balenciaga Museum, also contributes.Additional texts come from the fashion industryprofessionals who worked with and knew Kublin best: aninterview with his partner and muse, the model KatinkaBleeker; memories from the Italian fashion photographerGian Paolo Barbieri, who began his career as Kublin'sassistant in Paris in the 1960s; and a piece by Lydia Slater,editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar UK, who looks back onKublin's work for the magazine at a pivotal time in its history.Honouring the successes and innovations of TomKublin's stellar career, this book records for posterity hiscontribution to fashion photography and to the iconographyof the House of Balenciaga.