Evening dress | Grès, Madame | V&A Search the Collections This evening dress is a replica of a 1955 design and was made especially for the Museum in 1971. Madame Grès trained as a sculptor and then turned to haute couture, becoming 'Alix', with premises in the Faubourg St Honoré in Paris. She re-opened at 1 rue de La Paix in 1941 as 'Grès'. A house press release described Madame Grès' personal manner of handling materials 'almost without seams', and how she 'induced manufacturers to produce j

Evening dress | Grès, Madame | V&A Search the Collections This evening dress is a replica of a 1955 design and was made especially for the Museum in 1971. Madame Grès trained as a sculptor and then turned to haute couture, becoming 'Alix', with premises in the Faubourg St Honoré in Paris. She re-opened at 1 rue de La Paix in 1941 as 'Grès'. A house press release described Madame Grès' personal manner of handling materials 'almost without seams', and how she 'induced manufacturers to produce j

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