Pierpaolo Piccioli, Balenciaga’s creative director: ‘I don’t want to revive the house’s archives; I want to revive its values’

To mark their first collaboration, Pierpaolo Piccioli and Manolo Blahnik speak to EL PAÍS about Cristóbal Balenciaga’s legacy, the liberation of the body through clothing, the enduring value of craftsmanship and the importance of authenticity in the age of AI