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Countess Jacqueline de Ribes, fashion exhibitions 2015 - 2016, fashion icon, Jacqueline de Ribes: The Art of Style, Mark your diary!, The Costume Institute - Metropolitan Museum of Art
Stylista extraordinaire
Fashion muse
Clothing designer
Hall of Fame inductee, International Best Dressed List (1962)
Aristocrat
French television producer
and much more …
all describe the many facets of life which is that of
Countess Jacqueline de Ribes
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Photographic portrait of Countess Jacqueline de Ribes
by American fashion and portrait photographer, Richard Avedon
(image by liveauctioneers.com)
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Nèe Jacqueline Bonnin de La Bonninière de Beaumont (1929)
into a French aristocratic family
the Countess Jacqueline de Ribes, now 85 years old
is being honoured by
The Costume Institute, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC)–
with a show highlighting her fashion and style vision
which for decades, has graced the international scene.
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In her own design
A pink creation, a / w 1983
now on view at The Costume Institute
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Wearing Dior, 1959
(images from nymag.com)
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The exhibition titled
Jacqueline de Ribes: The Art of Style
features 60 pieces, chronicled from the early ’60s to present-
from Countess de Ribes’ personal wardrobe.
Some are of her own creation,
others the work of designers she admired.
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Truly a show worth the visit as it encapsules the aesthetics of a by-gone era
while attesting to a definition of ultimate style as a intricate statement of self.
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Jacqueline de Ribes:
The Art of Style
The Costume Institute,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
until 21 February 2016
For further details visit:
http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2015/jacqueline-de-ribes
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