Balenciaga

Balenciaga SA
	Store in SoHo, Manhattan
Company type	Subsidiary (société anonyme)
Industry	Fashion
Predecessor	Balenciaga y Compañía; EISA, S.A.;
Founded	San Sebastián, Spain, 1919; 105 years ago
Founder	Cristóbal Balenciaga
Headquarters	Paris, France
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Cédric Charbit (chief executive officer); Demna Gvasalia (creative director); Martina Tiefenthaler (chief creative officer); Ludivine Pont (chief marketing officer);
Number of employees	1,325[citation needed] (2019)
Parent	Kering
Website	balenciaga.com

Balenciaga (/bəˌlɛnsiˈɑːɡə/ bə-LEN-see-AH-gə,^[1] Spanish: [balenˈθjaɣa], Basque: [balents̻i.aɣa]) is a luxury fashion house founded in Spain by the Spanish designer Cristobal Balenciaga and now headquartered in Paris. It designs, manufactures and markets ready-to-wear footwear, handbags, and accessories, and licenses its name and branding to Coty for fragrances.^[2] Balenciaga is one of the luxury brands owned by Kering.

Originally a Spanish brand, it was founded in 1919 by Spanish couturier Cristóbal Balenciaga in San Sebastián.