The paper explores the creative contribution of Cristóbal Balenciaga to the aesthetics of contemporary fashion designers within the context of historical and cultural backdrop of European high fashion of the mid 20th century. A fair amount of attention was given to Paris, where the most significant work was produced during the 50's and 60's, which continues to perpetuate its echoes through the fashion silhouette of the second half of the 20th century. The axis of the paper is concentrated along the lines of unusual and revolutionary volumes which the designer inserts between the women's body and the clothes, and by doing so tears down the standardized model of the female hour glass silhouette. By analyzing a few designers of the second half of the century and the beginning of the 21st century I followed a logical progression of ideas and the silhouette mutability, which, translated from the haute couture fashion still tied to its legitimate connections to the social, continues on within the postmodern fashion through hyperIII inflated accents, especially revised through the work of Japanese designers, which share the same experimental and plastic quality observed in Cristóbal Balenciaga's work.