Born: Alexandria, Egypt, 1904
Died: Athens, Greece, 1970
In 1950 Vogue described Jean Dessès, an Egyptian-born Greek, as daring and influential. ‘Dessès creates with a hand that is dashing and unafraid. The inspired results: flattering décolletages; clothes with easy and young movement of line.’ A couturier who came to prominence in post-war Paris, Dessès had become so famous by the turn of the 1950s that he created the ‘Jean Dessès American Collection’, a range that was designed and sold directly through wholesalers. He was acclaimed as one of Vogue’s ‘Names in the News’, ‘hailed and applauded by American store buyers, recognised and respected by your customers.’
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