GresMatter Tag

Editor’s Note: The fourth installment of WWD’s weeklong exploration of the Fairchild Fashion Archive includes this Feb. 15, 1977, interview in Paris with the legendary Madame Gres, in addition to a Dec. 31, 1975, interview in London with Zandra Rhodes. PARIS — You need to be prepared for Mme. Gres. She is claimed to be chronically frail, timid, “living in one other world” and even bald. Contained in the Gres offices on the Rue de la Paix, Madame’s aides offer counsel on how you can conduct an interview with the last grande puriste of the French couture. There are questions to not be asked, photographs which must not be taken, comparisons to not be made, not an excessive amount of time to...