Ralph & Russo Autumn/Winter 2018 couture – a tribute to the art de vivre of fashion icon Jacqueline de Ribes

  ‘Clothes like good architecture have to respond to a rhythm of life. You can’t be elegant without being graceful and you can’t be graceful if you’re not at ease’ – Comtesse Jacqueline de Ribes. Jacqueline de Ribes appeared the first time on the International Best Dressed List in 1956. In 1983, she was voted the … Read more

Jacqueline de Ribes: fashion lessons from a French socialite

The French aristocrat, socialite and designer has spent six decades as a couture muse – and now her style is being celebrated at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York