so perhaps Balenciaga saw him as a protégé. In the beginning, he took my father to museums to have a look at [Francisco] Goya to get a feeling for how clothes were depicted [in his art] and how ...

Here, on the second level of Balenciaga’s new London flagship store, the crack has been deftly carved and then filled in with putty-coloured resin. It is a meticulous, 92cm-long character in a ...