That Cristobal Balenciaga was apparently the son of a fisherman who died while he was young, and a seamstress, and he somehow hooks up with and gets funded by a guy in French nobility. I can't find much information on his noble boy-friend... but if he is the guy in some of the pictures with Balenciaga, he looks like he could be 20 years older than Balenciaga- I see that he died 20 years before Balenciaga.
So, one of the first things the wikipedia bio of Balenciaga says is that Dior referred to him as "the master of us all". One of the meanings of Baal is "master".
Also it says Balenciaga is owned by Kering Corporation now.
Of course they have an owl-logo...
And of course...
They support Ukraine.