Tilda Swinton

Olivier Saillard

"In Eternity Dress (2013), a garment is tailor-made in front of a live audience...A glorious ode to fashion, Impossible Wardrobes presents and elevates couture to a veritable art form." --

Impossible Wardrobes: The impossible wardrobe

Kaat Debo

Didier Grumbach

Madame Grs launched her design house under the name Grs in Paris in 1942. Formally trained as a sculptress, she produced haute couture designs for an array of fashionable women, including the Duchess of Windsor, Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Jacquelin

Sculptural Fashion

Madame Gres

Dominique Veillon

On January 21, 1971, couturier Yves Saint Laurent presented his Spring-Summer haute couture collection. Inspired by the garments of the war years, the collection included short dresses, platform shoes, square shoulders, and exaggerated makeup. The show caused an outrage among the public, the critics, and the press alike, earning it the title of Paris s ugliest collection. Nevertheless, the haute couture designs of the runway made their way to the boulevards, giving full sway to the retro trend that quickly conquered the streets. "Yves Saint Laurent: The Scandal Collection, 1971" offers a behind-the-scenes look at the influential collection that drew fire in the fashion world from the collection s inspiration to the press coverage that followed. Beautifully illustrated and documented with well-researched essays, this book is enriched with personal interviews and archival photographs of the show, the models, the designs, and the textile and print samples, as well as sketches and international press clippings."

Olivier Saillard

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