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everyone knows issey miyake and his brand of wonderful pleats but before him there was someone way better, who barely gets recognition and i am gonna blame it on the patriarchy bc i think Madame Grés deserves a better spot in fashion history. 1/?
i feel like women in fashion are constantly being erased. especially women of color like ugh there’s no reason Zelda Barbour Wynn Valdes shouldn’t be a household when thousands of girls across the world still dress up in play bunny suite for halloween to this day 2/?
anyways back Grès bc she was making pleated dresses like this that sculpt the hell out of any women’s body in the 1950s!! “Her tight-lipped approach to her techniques and concealment from the public eye earned her the nickname "The Sphinx of Fashion.” sooo she’s also just cool
her looks are just insanely timeless. but unfortunately she went broke & had to retire and her fashion house came crumbling down w her. if it wasn’t for Alaïa who was a huge fan and collected her pieces we wouldn’t be able to see them on display in museum exhibits today
like it was said that saint laurent & pierre & hubert de givenchy has to help her rent an apartment. which is wild if you know that she was so good that during Nazi occupation of France she was granted permission to remain open. her grecian dresses were always consistent too
“I wanted to be a sculptor — for me it is just the same to work with fabric or stone,” ,,i mean, just look at the material! her talent is insane “The apparent simplicity of her work conceals extremely complex skills.” do you know how hard it is to make pleats Sculpt your body???
so wrap to it all up don’t forget women in fashion w/o us there wouldn’t be a fashion industry. in the wise words of Azzedine Alaïa “She is a woman who counts for so much in the history of fashion” madame grès’ legacy deserves to live on & zelda’s legacy deserves to live on
like the princess leia excellency she was giving ,,, i want every one of her pieces
and just bc they were anc. greek inspired does not mean they weren’t colorful she was serving a rusty red, green, purple, cobalt blue, daffodil yellow, cayenne orange palette consistently in every single season.
“her skills at draping and sewing were so unparalleled that her own atelier workers had trouble dating dresses in her archive.” ,,, now the other girls can’t say they relate to that
stan madame grès and have a good 
stan madame grès and have a good
oh and those were just her evening gowns she has a whole rtw section that i didnt even tough up on,,
