“Madame Grès never did fashion; she drove fashion.... She was always alone working,” states @oliviersaillard, the director of Fondation Azzedine Alaïa and curator of a new exhibition on Madame Grès opening on November 11 at @SCADFASH in Atlanta. Grès is best known for her Hellenic dresses, but the timelessness of her designs is not only a function of their classicism; they remain modern in part because the designer’s chief preoccupation was the body; her second, fabric. The vagaries of trends were of little interest to her. Moreover, Grès trained as an artist and was, Saillard observes, “much more a sculptor than fashion designer.” His assessment is in line with Vogue’s view of the designer. “It is Alix—Alix with the soul of a sculptor and a talent for draping new to Western civilization—who is the talk of Paris. The drapery of this young newcomer to the Grande Couture is firing a shot that will be heard around the fashion world,” the magazine enthused in 1935. Tap the link in bio for a closer look at the exhibition with the @the_lbp.