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Ode to Madame Gres’ Draped Fashion
The creation “Femina dress, 1946″ by French fashion designer Madame Gres (1903-1993) is displayed during the exhibition “Madame Gres, Couture at Work” at the Bourdelle Museum in Paris
July 7, 2011. For this celebrated couturier, who pleated and draped
her waythrough a half century career in fashion, the art of
meticulously folding fabric over the body to create dramatic sculpted
forms elevated craft to art. Some 80 flowing creations from the artist
who died in 1993 are on display this summer at Paris’ Musee Bourdelle,
the first retrospective of this legendary Parisian with the signature
Angora turban to whom contemporary fashion designers owe much. The
exhibition will end on August 28.
Story from PARIS (REUTERS)
(Reporting by Alexandria Sage, editing by Paul Casciato)
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