Gazar

In partnership with the eminent Swiss textile company Abraham Ltd., Balenciaga developed in the last years of his life a fabric called gazar—a crisp, open-mesh silk that seemed to be woven with air. ❋ Laura Jacobs (2011)

Using a palette she described as "desert brights," Beckham offered a teal matte gazar V-neck cocoon that she said was "young red carpet," but the finale gown in the same color and fabric was the one to talk about: It had chiffon-covered resin bits arranged in a mosaic pattern that looked like shards of shattered glass around the neckline. ❋ Hilary Moss (2011)

Gazar billows like a full sail and creates shapes that float Beene liked to use gazar in his later years. ❋ Laura Jacobs (2011)

He used everything from double-face wool and cashmere on day dresses to taffetta, gazar and printed organza for evening dresses. ❋ Ray A. Smith (2011)

Reuters The dress was also made with ivory and white satin gazar, its skirt designed to evoke an opening flower. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The strapless, ivory silk gazar dress, with fitted strapless bodice and circle skirt, echoed the shape of the dress worn to the morning's ceremony. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Prabal Gurung Draped silk faille dress with gazar ruffles. ❋ Ray A. Smith (2010)

Legendary pieces will be on display like the "Infanta" gown from his 1939 collection, a silk-gazar dress from 1967 and the 1957 wedding dress worn by Sonsoles Díez de Rivera daughter of Balenciaga's Spanish muse, the Marquesa de Llanzol. ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)

Cap sleeves have been appearing in several collections; the Monique Lhuillier iteration appears on a cream gazar blouse paired with high-waisted apple red trousers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

What can I do with heavy silk gazar that looks like a stained glass window? ❋ Unknown (2008)

It might be a single-buttoned jacket in white silk with a loose back after Balenciaga, worn over a knee-length black skirt that looks as airy as gazar, or a plain raincoat in taupe faille that is manifestly Parisian in its silhouette. ❋ Unknown (2004)

It moved beautifully, the feather skirt falling from a high-waisted small strapless silk gazar bodice. ❋ Arnold Scaasi (2004)

The duchess's gown, an ivory satin gazar creation with a fitted bodice and nine-foot train, was decorated by hand-made lace appliqué floral detail, carefully sewn by the lacemakers from the Royal School of needlework, at Hampton Court Palace. ❋ Unknown (2011)

At Dior, Bill Gaytten, who is in charge of the studio until a new designer is named, did a restrained job with Dior's tailoring, in house shades of gray, cream and palest blue, mixing the classic bar jacket with checked or creamy gazar skirts, and cigarette pants. ❋ By CATHY HORYN (2011)

The collection had a brisk youthfulness, with a blast of rose-red gazar for evening and off-the-shoulder looks in wool or washed faille that were essentially sexy T-shirts. ❋ By CATHY HORYN (2011)