Balenciaga

Balenciaga SA is a French fashion house of Spanish origin, headquartered in Paris. It designs, manufactures and markets ready-to-wear footwear, handbags, and accessories, and licenses its name and branding to the European cosmetics company L'Oréal for its namesake fragrances. The brand was originally founded in San Sebastián by the Spanish couturier Cristóbal Balenciaga in 1919 before its establishment in Paris in 1937 as a result of the Spanish Civil War. Closed in 1968 by its founder who died three years later, Balenciaga was ultimately acquired in 1986 by the French fragrance group Jacques Bogart, which subsequently relaunched the brand and revitalized it. It is now owned by the French luxury goods holding company Kering, controlled by the Pinault family, after its acquisition in 2001. Gianfranco Gianangeli has been CEO of Balenciaga since November 2024. British designer Martine Rose was appointed the creative director of Balenciaga in November 2026, following the departure of Italian designer Pierpaolo Piccioli.

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