#fabiola de mora y aragón

[gabriellademonaco]

The Queen Consorts of Belgium wearing the Nine Provinces Tiara:

Queen Astrid (née Princess of Sweden)

Queen Fabiola (née de Mora y Aragón)

Queen Paola (née Ruffo di Calabria)

Queen Mathilde (née d'Udekem d'Acoz)

[themerrycourtier]

The Wedding of His Majesty King Baudouin of Belgium and Fabiola de Mora y Aragón:

December 15, 1960 - 63 years ago today. 

[europesroyalsweddings]

✵ December 15, 1960 ✵

Doña Fabiola de Mora y Aragón & King Baudouin

[johnooms]

Wat gebeurde er op 31 juli? 1993 – KONING BOUDEWIJN DER BELGEN (62) OVERLEDEN Hij was Hertog van Brabant (1934–1950), Graaf van Henegouwen (1930–1934), Prins van België, regeerde in de periode 1950-1951 als koninklijk prins en van 1951 tot 1993 als Koning der Belgen. Koning Boudewijn overleed in zijn buitenverblijf in Playa Granada, Motril in Spanje. Hij werd, omdat zijn huwelijk met Fabiola Mora y Aragón kinderloos bleef, opgevolgd door zijn jongere broer Albert, die aldus koning Albert II der Belgen werd. Klik op de link hieronder voor meer Nieuws van Vroeger: http://johnooms.nl/2024/07/31/31-juli/

[docpiplup]

@asongofstarkandtargaryen

New members of Balenciaga's cast:

Gemma Whelan as Prudence Glynn, journalist for The Times

Belén Cuesta as Fabiola de Mora y Aragón, later queen of Belgium, great-grandaughter of Micaela Elío y Magallón, Balenciaga's patron

Adam Quintero as Ramón Esparza, Balenciaga's partner and collaborator

Thomas Coumans as Wladzio d'Attainnville, Balenciaga's business associate and partner

Josean Bengoetxea as Nicolás Bizkarron, businessman from Donostia

Cecilia Solaguren as Virgilia Mendizabal, Nicolás' wife

Elvira Cuadrupani as Bettina Ballard, correspondent for Vogue magazine in Paris

Patrice Thibaud as designer Christian Dior

Eva Blay as designer Elsa Schiaparelli

Anne-Victoire Olivier as actress Audrey Hepburn

Isabelle Brès as designer Jeanne Lanvin

Steve Howard as Benjamin Grindley

[venicepearl]

Doña Fabiola Fernanda María-de-las-Victorias Antonia Adelaida de Mora y Aragón (11 June 1928 – 5 December 2014) was Queen of the Belgians from her marriage to King Baudouin in 1960 until his death in 1993. The couple had no children, so the Crown passed to her husband's younger brother, King Albert II.

[european-royalties]

#OnThisDay 1st 📸 - Year 1817, Birth of Louise of Hesse-Kassel. was Queen of Denmark as the wife of King Christian IX from 15 November 1863 until her death in 1898. Louise was born as the daughter of Prince William of Hesse-Kassel and Princess Charlotte of Denmark. Her siblings included Princess Marie Luise Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel, Prince Frederick William of Hesse-Kassel and Princess Auguste Sophie Friederike of Hesse-Kassel. Louise of Hesse lived in Denmark from the age of three. As a niece of King Christian VIII, who ruled Denmark between 1839 and 1848, Louise was very close to the succession after several individuals of the royal house of Denmark who were elderly and childless. Louise was married at the Amalienborg Palace in Copenhagen on 26 May 1842 to her second cousin Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg. He was soon selected as hereditary prince of Denmark and later ascended the throne of Denmark as King Christian IX. 2nd 📸 - Year 1857, Birth of Princess Elisabeth of Anhalt. the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz from 1904 to 1914 as the spouse of Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. She was born Princess Elisabeth Marie Frederica Amelia Agnes in Wörlitz, the third child of Friedrich I, Duke of Anhalt and Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg. Her nickname in the family was "Elly". 3rd 📸 - Year 1930, Birth of King Baudouin of Belgium. was King of the Belgians from 1951 until his death in 1993. He was the last Belgian king to be sovereign of the Congo. Baudouin was the elder son of King Leopold III (1901–1983) and his first wife, Princess Astrid of Sweden (1905–1935). Because he and his wife, Queen Fabiola, had no children, at Baudouin's death the crown passed to his younger brother, King Albert II. On 15 December 1960, Baudouin was married in Brussels to Doña Fabiola de Mora y Aragón. Fabiola was a Spanish noblewoman who was working as a nurse. The couple announced their engagement on 16 September 1960 at the Castle of Laeken. #RoyalHistory #HistoryofRoyals #RoyalBirth #LouiseofHesseKassel #PrincessElisabethofAnhalt #KingBaudouin #Monarchy #EuropeanRoyalties https://www.instagram.com/p/CTg67Xil2eM/?utm_medium=tumblr

[justforbooks]

Cristóbal Balenciaga Eizaguirre was born on 21 January 1895. He was a Spanish fashion designer, and the founder of the Balenciaga fashion house. 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 Museo Balenciaga 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.

Balenciaga was born in Getaria, province of Gipuzkoa (Basque Country). His father was a simple fisherman who died when Cristobal was a boy, and his mother a seamstress. As a child Balenciaga often spent time with his mother as she worked. At the age of twelve, he began work as the apprentice of a tailor. When he was a teenager, the Marchioness de Casa Torres, the foremost noblewoman in his town, became his customer and patron. She sent him to Madrid, where he was formally trained in tailoring. Balenciaga is notable as one of the few couturiers in fashion history who could not only use his own hands to create, but pattern, cut, and sew the designs which symbolized the height of his artistry.

Balenciaga was successful during his early career as a designer in Spain. He opened a boutique in San Sebastián in 1919, which expanded to include branches in Madrid and Barcelona. The Spanish royal family and the aristocracy wore his designs, but when the Spanish Civil War forced him to close his stores, Balenciaga moved to Paris. He opened his Paris couture house on Avenue George V in August 1937.

However, it was not until the post-war years that the full scale of the inventiveness of his highly original designs became evident. In 1951, he totally transformed the silhouette, broadening the shoulders and removing the waist. In 1955, he designed the tunic dress, which later developed into the chemise dress of 1957. In 1959, his work culminated in the Empire line, with high-waisted dresses and coats cut like kimonos.

In 1960 he made the wedding dress for Fabiola de Mora y Aragón when she married King Baudouin I of Belgium. The Queen later donated her wedding dress to the Cristóbal Balenciaga Foundation.

He created many designs for socialite Aline Griffith, diplomat Margarita Salaverría Galárraga, and designer Meye Allende de Maier, considering them his muses.

He taught fashion design classes, inspiring other designers including Oscar de la Renta, André Courrèges, Emanuel Ungaro, Mila Schön and Hubert de Givenchy.

His often spare, sculptural creations were considered masterworks of haute couture in the 1950s and 1960s.

Balenciaga closed his house in 1968 at the age of 74 after working in Paris for 30 years. He decided to retire and closed his fashion houses in Paris, Barcelona and Madrid, one after the other. Balenciaga died on 23 March 1972 in Xàbia, Spain.

Today the Balenciaga fashion house continues under the direction of Demna Gvasalia and under the ownership of the Kering.

Daily inspiration. Discover more photos at http://justforbooks.tumblr.com

[bvlgarivm]

[between-crowns-and-tiaras]

Royal Tiara Challenge: {09/30}  A tiara you would like to see Queen Mathilde of Belgium wear --> Queen Fabiola's Spanish Wedding Gift Tiara.

When Spain's Doña Fabiola de Mora y Aragón married Belgium's King Baudouin in 1960, she received a tiara from the Spanish government. This was a gift given by General Franco (the Spanish head of state at the time). 

Since Mathilde and Fabiola were near to eachother, Fabiola could have leave her tiara to Mathilde, I think it would be beautiful in her head and not counting that would be a honour wear something that belongged to a special Queen as Fabiola.

(P.S: the photo above isn’t real, it was made by Photoshop.)

[gabriellademonaco]

Wedding of Doña Fabiola de Mora y Aragón and King Baudouin of Belgium (1960)

[graceandfamily]

La Reine des Belges Fabiola de Mora y Aragón avec les époux princiers Grace et Rainier de Monaco en France.

[europesroyalsweddings]

✵ December 15, 1960 ✵

Doña Fabiola de Mora y Aragón & King Baudouin

[theroyalhistory]

Wedding of King Baudouin of Belgium and Fabiola de Mora y Aragón, December 15, 1960

[docpiplup]

@asongofstarkandtargaryen I saw a new article and a bunch of pics from the filming.

I translated the article:

Two huge hoists cut through the streets surrounding the Bank of Spain in Donosti, a stately building closed and waiting to change its use in the Gipuzkoan city where the Balenciaga art team (provisional title) has rebuilt the Madrid house of Cristobal Balenciaga ( Getaria, 1895-Jávea, 1972), his first offices in the capital and the Parisian workshops in which the designer developed his work when he left Spain for the French capital in 1937. That is the moment in which this ambitious production starts of Disney +, the first developed entirely in Spain, with which the company intends to establish itself as a creator on the unstable board of streaming operators. The story will reach the last days of the genius and will cover four different decades of the 20th century.

The history of Balenciaga began like this. One day, Lourdes Iglesias decided to show a sketch of what would later become the script to Xabier Berzosa, who agreed to become the project's executive producer. Berzosa, who had worked on the films Loreak, Handia or La trinchera infinita, proposed that the directors of the three, José Mari Goenaza, Aitor Arregi and Jon Garaño, take the lead in the story and collaborate with Iglesias in the final development of the film. fiction –this is a biopic, yes, but not a typical one– . And they accepted. The only thing missing was to sell the idea to a distributor, and Disney + was the one that bet on them after a few meetings by Zoom. The trio, who have won 12 Goya awards throughout their career, dared to make the leap to the series. “It's something new in many ways because you have a lot more material to shoot, in different times and with a very large team. Change the dimension of the project”, confesses Garaño.

"Being such a little-known character, everyone has their own version and their Balenciaga, there is no unanimity," explains Iglesias. The truth is that the designer gave only two interviews in his entire life, there are hardly any photographs, there is only a thirty-second video recording in which he appears from behind and the entire production documentation process has been done through books and the story of those who came to know him. “We have informed ourselves a lot, we have read everything, we have surrounded ourselves with those who know the most about the subject and in no case have we been left over. We approach the story with a lot of respect”, adds the screenwriter. The responsibility is tremendous for a team that has decided to portray a character played by Alberto San Juan, who is accompanied in the cast, in which no key person in the designer's life is missing, by names such as Belén Cuesta (Fabiola de Mora y Aragón), José Bengoetxea (Nicolás Bizkarrondo), Adam Quintero (Ramón Esparza), Thomas Coumans (Wladzio D´Attainville), Gemma Whelan (Prudence Glynn) or Cecilia Solaguren (Virgilia Mendizabal).

"It was an irrefutable proposal, possibly the role of the greatest dimension that I have been given in my work in the audiovisual field," acknowledges Alberto San Juan in an office from the first Balenciaga offices created for the occasion. The actor walks the sets dressed as Cristobal Balenciaga would have done, with an outfit sewn from scratch by the series' costume designer, Bina Daigeler. "Cristóbal Balenciaga is a person about whom not much is known, but he is a very interesting guy not only for his value as a creator and as a technician in his trade, but also as a human being." The series will delve into aspects of the couturier's professional life, but also into other aspects of his personal life. Balenciaga married a woman, but lived what in today's eyes can be understood as two affective relationships with men, with the businessman Ramón Esparza and first with Wladzio D'Attainville, a Frenchman of Russian origin who was always considered the great love of the creator and whose death, in 1948, is said to have never been recovered. "The series deals with the contradiction, the conflict created from the prohibition of experiencing desire freely, when it does not coincide with the norm at that time in that society," explains San Juan. “He was a guy who wanted to live on the fringes of politics, no public acceptance in a political sense is known to him, ever, and in a very confusing period such as the Civil War in Spain, the Second World War or the invasion Nazi of France He lived in the contradiction of not wanting to get involved when the story involves you”, he adds. For Jose Mari Goenaga, that attitude towards life has a clear explanation: “We have always imagined his head to be tormented. For the fact of having to have control of everything, but also for living within a family that functioned as a protective helmet so that nothing escaped him. Cristobal Balenciaga existed at a time when expressing himself freely was completely penalized and clashed head-on with his strong religious convictions. “We have not stopped talking about homosexuality. Between us, with Alberto and it's something we didn't know how to give a clear focus to. We have chosen not to hide it, but he is a person who does not talk about this in the series, ”admits the director.

Beyond the twists and turns of the designer's life, Balenciaga will also show the work of someone who is still considered one of the best designers in history today. The costume work has had the aforementioned Daigeler as designer and Pepo Ruiz Dorado as costume designer. “Balenciaga is doing two projects at the same time. You have the normal shooting, which means making costumes for a lot of people, the actors, and there is also the aspect of having to produce all the shows and collections that appear in the scripts”, explains the designer. All the mythical designs that endure in the collective imagination will be in the series, from the tonneau silhouette dresses to the fisherman-inspired coats that the designer saw in his childhood. To do this, the team has had access to the archives held by the firm in Paris, to those of the Galliera museum in the French city and has had the advice of Miren Arzalluz, director of the Paris Fashion Museum and former head of collections of the Balenciaga Museum in Getaria. Even with that clearly invaluable help, it hasn't been easy. "We are facing a problem of fabric suppliers, because what is there now is not the same as it was before," admits the designer.

“Finding heavy wool is very difficult and many fabric suppliers are in London, and since Brexit it is super to work with them. Due to the pandemic there are not the same quantities, there are many that are out of stock, and then there is the issue of gazar [a textile created by Balenciaga in collaboration with the Swiss company Abraham], there is only one supplier and it is not exactly the same as the original ”, deepens. Although Bina Daigeler does not like to talk about numbers, about 200 replica dresses and the outfits of hundreds of participants in the series have come out of her head, assembled from original garments from the 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s. Those are In addition, the decades of the couturier's life in which the make-up director, Karmele Soler, has had to work to achieve a realistic Cristobal. “Making it go through all those ages is really complex, but we have tried not to have too much artifice. A subtle aging has been achieved, finding Balenciaga, but there comes a time when you have to abandon it and focus on Alberto”, explains the make-up artist just before checking that everything is ready for the parade that illustrates these lines.

The look at Cristobal Balenciaga that this series will offer has the approval of the renewed Balenciaga, from whom Berzosa acknowledges that they have only received facilities. The firm headed by Demna Gvasalia pays homage to the designer in its collections and has allowed access to the archives, but also to shoot outside the boutique that the brand has recently recovered and which served as the setting for the return to Haute Couture of the house after 53 years last fall. The interior, yes, has been faithfully reconstructed – the elevator covered in red velvet, the sofas or the clock that hangs in Paris are also there – in the Zinealdea studios in Oiartzun, on the outskirts of Donosti, thanks to the work of the director of art Mikel Serrano. "We have built a world that in some cases no one is going to be able to refute because there is no documentation either, but obviously trying not to turn it into a fantasy, to make it implausible," he says between shots.

For Disney +, the series represents a turning point in its strategy within Spain. They arrive later than other operators to their own production, so the project had to be up to the task. Sofía Fábregas, the company's vice president of original production, defines it as follows: “We were looking for something very big that would speak for itself about the commitment to original production that we are going to make. The idea was to combine local authorship with the international budget and that is the differential that we believe we can contribute”. Now all we have to do is wait for the final result, but don't be fooled. Balenciaga has taken years to start, it has taken its time with the shooting and promises to work as hard or more in its post-production, so it will not hit the screens until 2023.