“Madame Grès never did fashion; she drove fashion…. She was always alone working,” states Olivier Saillard, the director of Fondation Azzedine Alaïa and curator of a new exhibition on Madame Grès ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PLEATS PLEASE: A selection of designs from the personal archive of Madame Grès will go under the hammer in Paris on Thursday. The ...

Last week at the Governors Awards, Jennifer Lawrence continued her reign as a Dior ambassador—and master of easy sophistication—in a sculptural white gown. The ensemble was a riff on look 26 of ...

PARIS — Designer Koji Tatsuno figures the time is ripe to resurrect the fabled house founded by Madame Alix Grès. "So many of the designs you see on the catwalk today have been inspired by Madame Grès ...

Just who was Madame Grès – this secretive woman nicknamed "the Sphinx" who was fiercely opposed to any media exposure? The fashion designer – whose real name was Germaine Emilie Krebs (1903-1993) – ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Last week the exhibition Madame Grès: Couture at Work opened at the Musée Bourdelle in Paris, demonstrating the ...

Simply sign up to the Style myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Extraordinary clothes still need a body to bring them to life. The Greco-Roman drapes of Madame Grès, though, are a rare ...

Grès was a French haute couture fashion house. Sometimes nicknamed the “Sphinx of Fashion,” Madame Grès (1903-1993) felt she was very much a sculptor and a fashion designer: “I wanted to become a ...

PLEATS PLEASE: A selection of designs from the personal archive of Madame Grès will go under the hammer in Paris on Thursday. The bulk of the pieces, dating from the ’30s to the ’80s, were acquired as ...