With his first collection for the fashion house, Pierpaolo Piccioli does not only sign a series of looks: he initiates a material. With the neo-gazar, the new artistic director of Balenciaga reinvents a historic textile of the brand.

The contemporary return of a manifest fabric.

At the end of the 1950s, Cristóbal Balenciaga collaborated with the Abraham textile workshops to develop the gazar, a double-sided textile capable of supporting volumes without weighing down the silhouette. Its structure is based on a first layer of gauze that animates the surface with a deliberately irregular texture; underneath, a second layer of silk woven organza provides structure. Both dense and ethereal, this innovation allowed the Spanish couturier to shape the space around the body, giving life to the Balenciaga style.