‘A Couturier Must Be an’ — Cristóbal Balenciaga Quote Tee | Wear Words Black-on-White Literary Tee — Muscle Tank

“A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a philosopher for temperance.” Cristóbal Balenciaga, who gave essentially one press interview in his life, left this as his credo, kept by museums from the V&A to the Balenciaga Museoa in his birthplace of Getaria. He named five disciplines a couturier must hold at once — architect, sculptor, painter, musician, philosopher. Mastery of anything real, he suggests, is rarely one skill; it is many kept in balance, with temperance the rarest and last.

**Bella+Canvas 3483 — Muscle Tank (Black only for now, Color finish).** A white option isn’t available from our printer at the moment — we’ll add it the moment it is. 100% combed & ring-spun cotton, 4.2 oz, 30 singles. Unisex muscle fit, crew neck, cut-off sleeves, wide armholes, side-seamed, pre-shrunk. Care: machine wash cold with like colors, tumble dry low, no bleach, cool iron inside-out (never iron the print).