Whelan plays the real-life British journalist Prudence Glynn, who secures an interview with the enigmatic Balenciaga near the end of his life after buttonholing him at the funeral of Coco Chanel ...

"99 per cent of the people don’t even know who Cristobal Balenciaga was. And worst of all, Balenciaga has lost every bit of their heritage." Meanwhile, others cut right to the chase: "They’re ...

It began in Spain, chez Cristóbal Balenciaga; traversed Paris (where he worked at Lanvin); and landed him—with an armful of letters of introduction—in New York City in 1963. There ...