Alix gres biography
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Madame Grès
French grand couturier
Madame Grès | |
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| Born | Germaine Émilie Krebs (1903-11-30)30 November 1903 Paris, France |
| Died | 24 November 1993(1993-11-24) (aged 89) |
| Organization | Grès |
| Spouse | Serge Czerefkov |
| Children | 1 |
Madame Grès (1903–1993), also known as Alix Barton and Alix, was a leading French couturier and costume designer, founder of haute couture fashion house Grès as well as the associated Parfums Grès.[1] Remembered as the "Sphinx of Fashion", Grès was notoriously secretive about her personal life and was seen as a workaholic with a furious attention to detail, preferring to let her work do the talking.[2] Grès, best known for her floor-length draped Grecian goddess gowns,[3] is noted as the "master of the wrapped and draped dress"[4] and the "queen of drapery".[2] Grès's minimalistic draping techniques and her attention to and respect for the female body[5] have had a la
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Madame Alix Gres was born Germaine Emilie Krebs in Paris in 1903. She began as a sculptor, but never had a fruitful career. Frustrated, she began to design toiles for a design house in Paris. That’s when she decided to try her grabb at mode design.
She opened her first house beneath the name Alix Barton. She designed silk jersey dresses, with simple lines and draping, and began gaining some publicity in fashion magazines. Her house was simply named “Alix”.
Her training as a sculptor influenced her clothing designs. She once created a dress modeled after the Louvre’s Nike of Samothrace. Alix created many of her gowns from silk jersey which she draped and pleated and cut on the bias.
In the late 1930s Alix married Serge Czerefkov, sold the rights to the name Alix and adopted Gres from her husband’s first name, spelled backwards.
By the time WWII hit, Madame Gres had become a world famous designer. Even though she was Jewish, German soldiers asked if she would design dresses for
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