It is a private collection of the Italian designer Lorenzo Riva who worked as the artistic director of the Balenciaga firm The examinations carried out show that more than 1,500 documents contain annotations or drawings directly attributable to the hand of Cristóbal Balenciaga The documentation is now in the Basque Country Historical Archive and will later be transferred to the Cristóbal Balenciaga Museum in Getaria The Department of Culture and Language Policy today presented a recently acquired collection of documents related to the Balenciaga House in Paris, from the 1940s to the 1960s, at the Basque Country Historical Archive. The presentation was attended by the Minister of Culture and Language Policy and Spokesperson for the Basque Government, Bingen Zupiria, and the director of the Balenciaga Museum in Getaria, Miren Vives.