One of the foremost fashion museums in Paris, the Musée Galliera, will host a new exhibit about the life and work of Parisian fashion designer Madame Grès, even though the museum building remains closed for renovations until next spring, reports Le Blog Luxe.
A satellite exhibit, Madame Grès, Couture at Work will be held at the Musée Bourdelle but hosted by the Musée Galliera. Assembled by star critic and curator Olivier Saillard, the show runs until July 24.
Spanning the 1930s to the 1980s, the exhibit contains 80 designs for womenswear, 50 photographs and nearly 100 sketches borrowed from the Maison Grès Archives.
Born Germaine Émilie Krebs in 1903, Madame Grès was a prolific designer who founded her own fashion house, Grès, in 1942 and designed for many high-profile women of the time, include the Duchess of Windsor, Greta Garbo, Jacqueline Kennedy and Dolores del Río.
Trained in the art of sculpture rather than fashion design, the designer was often quoted saying, "I wanted to be a sculptor. For me, working with fabric or stone is the same thing."