Madame Grès: Couture at Work at the Musée Bourdelle in Paris, through July 24.

“I wanted to be a sculptor — for me it is just the same to work with fabric or stone.”

- Madame Grès

The show is comprised of 80 couture pieces, including creations for the Duchess of Orleans and the Duchess of Windsor, and 50 photographs, by Willy Maywald, Guy Bourdin and Richard Avedon, among others.

Below: images from the exhibit, part of which is styled as an atelier.

“She is a woman who counts for so much in the history of fashion.”

- Azzedine Alaïa, who collected archives pieces upon the designer’s death.

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