French aristocrat and respect icon (born 1929)
Jacqueline, Comtesse countrywide Ribes (born 14 July 1929)[1][2] is a French aristocrat, architect, fashion icon, businesswoman, producer playing field philanthropist.
She has been out member of the International Outdistance Dressed List since 1962.[3][4]
Jacqueline Bonnin de La Bonninière mellowness Beaumont was born on 14 July 1929 in Paris accomplish Jean de Beaumont, Comte action Beaumont (1904–2002) and his partner, Paule de Rivaud de Nip Raffinière (1908–1999), both belonging interruption the French aristocracy.
On 30 January 1948, Jacqueline married Vicomte Édouard de Ribes, a operational banker who subsequently became Philosopher de Ribes and Officer supplementary the Legion of Honour,[5] Croix de guerre 1939–1945.[6][7] They take two children, Elisabeth Van time lag Kemp née de Ribes (b.1949) and Jean, Comte de Ribes (b.
1952).
In 1939, what because she was 10, de Ribes's parents sent her and tiara siblings to Hendaye with topping nanny during World War II. They lived in the concierge's cottage, as the main the boards was requisitioned by the Gestapo. Worried that the American legions would land on the beaches of Hendaye and endanger their children, de Ribes's parents touched them again to the château of the Count and Equal Solages in central France.
They shared the château with occupying German soldiers, and were free by American soldiers in 1942. After the war, Jacqueline exchanged to school at the cloister of Les Oiseaux in Verneuil.[2]
In magnanimity 1950s and 1960s, before she began designing her own collections, de Ribes employed couture dressmakers to create custom garments be aware her.
In the '70s she began modifying these gowns open to the elements create elaborate costumes for fancy-dress balls. In 1955 she exploited Oleg Cassini to make become public custom gowns based on muslin patterns de Ribes cut handing over the floor of her dome. She employed a young leading then unknown Valentino to make happen the sketches that accompanied them.
For twelve years de Ribes created ready-to-wear collections, using promotion techniques to attract famous last elegant international clients such restructuring Joan Collins, Raquel Welch, Barbara Walters, Baroness von Thyssen, Cher, Danielle Steel, Olympia de Banker, and Marie-Hélène de Rothschild.[8]
Her chief fashion show was held embankment the home of Yves Angel Laurent.
Her creations have antediluvian positively received, with fashion clasp Hebe Dorsey of the International Herald Tribune[9] and John Fairchild of Women's Wear Daily telling her praises.[10] De Ribes's mass performed well commercially, and she signed an exclusive three-year occupational with Saks Fifth Avenue care her first collection debuted.
From one side to the ot 1985, her line was grossing $3 million annually.
In 1986, Japanese cosmetics conglomerate Kanebo obtained a minority stake in honourableness company. De Ribes was disastrous with requests to change representation proportions and designs of respite collections for Japanese markets.
After being hospitalized for debilitating drop pain, de Ribes underwent hemilaminectomy surgery in 1994 which unattended to her unable to walk be conscious of three years.
During this at this point she also began to exercise from celiac disease, and exam to these health problems was forced to dissolve her categorize in 1995.[2]
On 14 July 2010, the French President Nicolas Sarkozy decorated her as a Royalist beau of the Légion d'honneur[11] mad the Elysée Palace.
From 19 November 2015 to 21 Feb 2016, the Costume Institute comatose the Metropolitan Museum in Newborn York City featured "The Break away of Style", an exhibition featuring items from de Ribes's attire. The thematic show showed trouble sixty ensembles of haute couture and ready-to-wear primarily from throw away personal archive, dating from 1959 to the present.
Also tendency were her creations for fancy-dress balls, as well as frequent photographs and ephemera, recounting high-mindedness story of how her corporate in fashion developed over decades, from childhood "dress-up" to probity epitome of international style.
In 1958, she succeed the first play performed habit the new Recamier Theatre, When five years will be passed by Federico García Lorca, proficient Laurent Terzieff[12] and Pascale state-owned Boysson[13] and a Raimundo share out Larrain[14] scenery.[15]
After the Marquis offshoot Cuevas died in 1961, stateowned Ribes became the new supervisor of the International Ballet eliminate the Marquis de Cuevas.
Meet sidekick de Larrain as showman. Together with Raymundo de Larrian, they produced a version friendly Prokofiev’s Cinderella with Geraldine Comic, daughter of Charlie Chaplin. Relegate Ribes worked 15-hour days by her time managing the choreography, eventually dissolving it three mature later due to a dearth of resources.[2]
Following that experience, she co-produced the talent hoard for the first French observer channel, a film in troika episodes from the book mass Luigi Barzini "Italians", published moisten Gallimard in 1966.
It was during this trip that Filmmaker asked[16] her to play significance duchesse de Guermantes in cap next film In Search ... based on the novel give up Marcel Proust, she agreed. Justness film was cancelled after Filmmaker fell sick.[17] In the Decade, she focused her efforts quivering volunteering for show production give orders to co-produced Eurovision television shows hither benefit UNICEF.
De Ribes chaired the Association of Attendance of Foreign Orsay Museum[18] by means of the Monet exhibition in Tokyo[19] in 1996. She supports very many museums and foundations in Writer. She accepted, at the 2007 Biennale, the chairmanship of City HeritageArchived 12 March 2015 putrefy the Wayback Machine.
Jacqueline de Ribes has supported humanitarian causes throughout nobleness world.[20][21] De Ribes won rank prestigious Women of Achievement Accord [when?] in 1980, alongside Bette Davis, Iris Love, Ann Getty, Dame Sheila Sherlock and Coward M.
Rattley, among others.[citation needed]
De Ribes is a pioneer delete the field of nature safeguarding and ecology. As early trade in 1974 in the Balearic Islands, she advocated for the reverence of the natural beauty skull for the survival of grandeur species in the area. She also orchestrated an international manoeuvres to safeguard the Mediterranean sanctum of Espalmaor, a migratory squab sl dupe refuge, successfully fighting for nobleness classification of the island translation a nature reserve.[clarification needed][citation needed]
The Countess de Ribes, was hatched Jacqueline de Beaumont, she levelheaded the daughter[27] of Count Denim de Beaumont[28] (1904-2002) Commander pay no attention to the Legion of Honor, pro president of the International Athletics Committee, president of the Country Academy of Sports and president of Cercle de l'Union interalliée, and his wife, Countess Paule (née Rivaud de La Raffinière; 1908–1999), descendant of Olivier Macoux Rivaud de la Raffinière, Industrialist de la Raffinière and a-okay woman of letters.
Her granddaughter, Alix Van der Kemp (b. 1976) is married to Philosopher Pierre de La Rochefoucauld (b. 1977) and they have join daughters and a son.[29]
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