Jean Dessès
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Jean Dessès (6 August 1904 – 2 August 1970) was a world leading fashion designer in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. His designs reflected the influences of his travels, specializing in creating draped evening gowns in chiffon and mousseline, based on early Greek and Egyptian robes.
Biography
Born Jean Dimitre Verginie in
In 1963, at age 60, he retired to Greece because of poor health, where he ran a small boutique which he had opened eight years earlier. He died in Athens in 1970. In the 1990s, his fashion designs saw a revival with the interest in vintage dresses. Naomi Campbell wore a vintage boned bodice and ruched silk Desses gown in May 1999 at a Christie's party. Later, in 2001, Renée Zellweger wore a lemon yellow strapless 1950s Dessès gown to the Academy Awards. Similarly, Jennifer Lopez wore a vintage moss green Desses gown, made with 50 yards of chiffon, to the 2006 Academy Awards.[4]
The fashion designer Jean Dessès brought also out a perfume called Kalispera.
References
- ISSN 0016-5522.
- ^ "ELMUNDO.ES | SUPLEMENTOS | MAGAZINE 242 | Padres". El Mundo (Spain).
- ^ L’Officiel de la mode No. 333-334 de 1949, p. 84 et
- ^ "The Oscars 2021 | 93rd Academy Awards". www.oscar.com.
External links
Media related to Jean Dessès at Wikimedia Commons
- Jean Dessès at IMDb
- "Jean Dessès - Chiffon Evening Dress". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 2007-11-13.
- "Interactive timeline of couture houses and couturier biographies". Victoria and Albert Museum. 2015-07-29.
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