Evening dress

Madame Grès (Germaine Émilie Krebs)

fall/winter 1954–55 · silk · Costume Institute

Each draped dress begins with silk jersey panels disposed vertically and seamed together. Grès gathers the panels at the waist, tacking the moderately shirred jersey to its understructure. The bodice continues the shirring into tighter, more complicated pleating that continues the panel to finish in braided summits and bands and leaf and flower simulations, all sustaining the same jersey panels that began below in loose fullness.

Artist

Madame Grès (Germaine Émilie Krebs)

Date

fall/winter 1954–55

Medium

silk

Culture

French

Department

Costume Institute

Credit line

Gift of Mrs. Byron C. Foy, 1956