Madame Grès: Richard Martin and Harold Koda

angora jersey Anonymous Gift apron Asymmetrical Back cover black jersey black organza Black silk jersey Black silk taffeta Blue silk taffeta bodice body bolero buoyant caftans cape caryatid Center classical cloth Cocktail dress continuous piece Costume Institute Courtesy Chesbrough Rayner Courtesy Marjorie Reed Day suit double-faced wool draped dress drapery dressmaker dressmaker's Ector Munn elements ensemble fashion garment gown Greek draped Grès begins Grès creates Grès drapé Grès employs Grès practices Grès realizes Grès's drapé Gunzburg HAROLD KODA Harrison Williams Ingres's invention jacket jersey dress kimono sleeve Lady Mendl lamé Left length of fabric Madame Grès manipulations Marjorie Reed Gordon Metropolitan Museum modernist Museum of Art non-Western nudity one-shoulder dress panel polonaise push-pull RICHARD MARTIN Right seam separate rectangle sheath silk crepe silk velvet spaghetti straps stitched structural subtle shape taffeta and black tailored three-dimensionally torso understructure untailored Violet angora visual voluptuous White silk jersey wool coat wrapped