“A sketch must suggest both attack and allure; it must already suggest a living line; it must be redolent with movement.”
Such unique mastery also enables him to render the beauty of a drape, the manner in which a fabric clothes and enhances the body. “A dress only becomes interesting when it’s worn,” the artist notes, echoing Monsieur Dior’s observation that “for a dress to be successful, you must have an idea of what it will be in the movement of life.” Everything is there, in the superbly eloquent silence of these precious images, priceless archives of the future of couture. |
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