Evening dress

Design House Alix French

Designer Madame Grès (Germaine Émilie Krebs) French

1939

Not on view

A one-of-a-kind piece from a master of fabric manipulation; garments with the "Alix" label are fairly rare. The designer worked under that label in the early 1930s, before taking on the name "Alix Grès." The stiff glazed cotton is idiosyncratic for Gres--silk jersey was her signature fabric--but the bodice treatment foreshadows her work with draping and gathering. The inventive, but labor-intensive, construction of the skirt also presages her later work in its predilection for perfectionism and eye for detail.

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Title: Evening dress
Design House: Alix (French, 1934–1942)
Designer: Madame Grès (Germaine Émilie Krebs) (French, Paris 1903–1993 Var region)
Date: 1939
Culture: French
Medium: cotton
Credit Line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Rodman A. Heeren, 1961
Object Number: 2009.300.3219
Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute

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