Evening dress
Designer Madame Grès (Germaine Émilie Krebs) French
Not on view
Madame Grès’s career spanned five decades, during which she excelled in her ability to manipulate fabric and use its innate characteristics to enhance her designs. Known for classically inspired, form-fitting gowns, Grès began experimenting with geometrically cut pattern pieces in the mid-1960s, creating more free-flowing designs and earning the epithet “master of the wrapped and draped dress.” In this example, Grès used the cylinder and rectangle as basic compositional forms, creating a columnar gown with dramatic side panels that resemble the furisode kimono’s long sleeves.
On view from October 22, 2022–February 20, 2023
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