The singular vision of Madame Grès

“I wanted to become a sculptor, for me it’s the same thing to work with fabric or with stone”. These words were often repeated by Madame Grès (1903-1993) - So curator Olivier Saillard had the fantastic idea to exhibit those sculpture-like pieces among other sculptures in the Musée Bourdelle in Paris.

Madame Gres, a celebrated master of couture and a pioneer of sculpted and uncompromising minimalist dresses, found inspiration from the purity of Hellenistic sculpture, and from the ancient world, spanning from Northern Africa to India.