Madame Grès
Further images
Evening gown by Madame Grès, composed of six panels of ice blue silk-rayon jersey with a wide lavender silk satin ribbon at the shoulder; the jersey manufactured by Rodier
Worn by Countess Jacqueline Reille and Sophie Malgat; see L’Officiel (no. 321-322, Noël 1948) pp. 108, 126. An illustration of the dress appeared in Silhouettes (no. 227, 1948, p. 48). Grès also drafted a rough image of this dress on the front of an envelope (Palais Galliera, Musée de la mode, 2011.20.17).