A great one. Balenciaga.

Cristobal Balenciaga is the most prestigious Spanish Haute Couture fashion designer in history. Born in 1895 in the Basque Country, Spain, coming from a humble family,his dad was a fisherman and his mother was a seamstress.
From a young age he was very interested in the tailoring world and wonted to become a fashion designer. When he turned thirteen the Marquise de Casa de Torre become his client after challenging him to copy one of her best gowns.

Doing a fantastic work and his clients being the Royal Spanish family and aristocracy he years opened his own stores in San Sebastian, Madrid and Barcelona, labelling his gowns with the name of his mother Elsa.  Due to the Spanish Civil War he was forced to close his stores and moved to Paris, labelling this ones with his surname.

C.Balenciaga was a very discrete and super perfectionist man, he just wanted to make the best out of his work and if he hi didnt like something he would begin all over again, even though the customer liked it, his dresses had to be perfect  and that's why his considered the father of Haute Couture. He wasn't interested in becoming famous like Coco Chanel. Even though both were each´s other competence they respected one another, because they had a view of changing how women dressed in those times Chanel was making us wear trousers and Balenciaga was playing with volumes and making us less attach to our clothes.

He loved art and was a very religious man, he spent lots of time in museums and cathedrals, where he got many inspirations for his dresses.
 
Nowadays his most sold products are perfumes and accessories.