“As soon as you find something personal and unique, you must exploit it thoroughly and continue to implement it without stopping and right to the end.” —MadaMe Grès
critical and most important phase of the creation of a dress. For each collection that I prepare, I completely wear out three pairs of scissors.” A critic once lauded Grès, saying of her looks: “They owe as much to sculpture as to couture.” It’s clear that the designer endowed the community with a vision—an experience—that is timeless. While she believed that, for her work to succeed, “loneliness is necessary and crushing,” she has proven herself a generous person to those she never knew, gifting designs to generation after generation that can speak for themselves. u