The Most Famous
FASHION DESIGNERS from Spain
This page contains a list of the greatest Spanish Fashion Designers. The pantheon dataset contains 38 Fashion Designers, 1 of which were born in Spain. This makes Spain the birth place of the 8th most number of Fashion Designers behind Germany and Algeria.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Spanish Fashion Designers of all time. This list of famous Spanish Fashion Designers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Cristóbal Balenciaga (1895 - 1972)
With an HPI of 64.82, Cristóbal Balenciaga is the most famous Spanish Fashion Designer. His biography has been translated into 31 different languages on wikipedia.
Cristóbal Balenciaga Eizaguirre (Basque: [kɾisˈtoβal βalens̻iaɣa eis̻aɣire]; 21 January 1895 – 23 March 1972) was a Spanish fashion designer, and the founder of the Balenciaga clothing brand. He had a reputation as a couturier of uncompromising standards and was referred to as "the master of us all" by Christian Dior and as "the only couturier in the truest sense of the word" by Coco Chanel, who continued, "The others are simply fashion designers". On the day of his death, in 1972, Women's Wear Daily ran the headline "The King is Dead". Since 2011 the purpose-built Cristóbal Balenciaga Museum has exhibited examples of his work in his birth town Getaria. Many of the 1,200 pieces in the collection were supplied by his pupil Hubert de Givenchy and clients such as Grace Kelly.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as fashion designers born between 1895 and 1895. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased fashion designers include Cristóbal Balenciaga.
