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Madame Grès
Called “the sphinx of fashion” by the fashion press, Grès constructed her persona as carefully as her garments. Her well-off family discouraged an early desire to become a sculptor, so she turned to fashion instead.
Grès approached her designs with the passion of a true artist. In the mid-1960s, when ready-to-wear collections gained popularity, she remained devoted to couture. She continued to drape every style personally on a mannequin until she retired in the 1980s.
