Evening dress
Design House Alix French
Designer Madame Grès (Germaine Émilie Krebs) French
Not on view
At first and from the front, a black-and-red dress might appear to be just bands of alternating ribbon, but the tiers continue horizontally in the skirt into ties that form huge bows at the back. The bows are not treated as trimming but, in fact, are inherently part of the structure of the dress. Ornament is integral to construction in Grès's work, thus affording her garments, even in their most romantic manifestations, a strong modernist position.
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