Director of the fashion house of Cristóbal Balenciaga. Born on 16 May 1925 in Lesaca (Navarre), where he died on 30 May 1997.
He studied high school in Pamplona and law in Zaragoza, before moving to Paris in 1948, where he met Balenciaga through mutual friends in San Sebastian. From that moment until the closure of the haute couture studio in 1968, he was the director of the Balenciaga company and partner of the couturier until his death in Jávea in 1973.
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