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It required a certain confidence and presence to work to full advantage, and a social calendar that suited this kind of exuberance\"."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"The following excerpt is taken from Jouve, Marie-Andrée, and Demornex, Jacqueline. &lt;i&gt;Balenciaga&lt;/i&gt;. New York: Rizzoli, 1989.\n\n\"The collaboration with Gustave Zumsteg was [even more] important.  During the sixties Abraham cloth was used for one third of his collections.  Like other manufacturers, Zumsteg created materials especially for Balenciaga, complying with his needs and wishes.  Balenciaga was able to select exactly what he wanted from hundreds of similar versions.  On certain occasions they joined creative forces.  Gazar, produced by Zumsteg in 1958, and Zagar (super-gazar, made in 1964), were more than simply materials.  Zumsteg provided Balenciaga with a texture, a thickness, a stiffness and a weight as essential to the Master as Carrara marble to the sculptor\"."},{"reference":{"text":"Miller, Lesley Ellis, and Ana Cabrera Lafuente, with Claire Allen-Johnstone, eds. <u>Silk: Fibre, Fabric and Fashion</u>. London: Thames & Hudson Ltd in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 2021. 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