Jacques Doucet (fashion designer)

An enthusiastic collector of eighteenth-century furniture, objets d'art, paintings, and sculptures, many of his gowns were strongly influenced by this opulent era.

Cécile Sorel, Rejane and Sarah Bernhardt (for whom he designed her famous white costume in L'Aiglon) all often wore his outfits, both on and off the stage.

For the aforementioned actresses he reserved a particular style, one which consisted of frills, sinuous curving lines and lace ruffles that reflected the colors of faded flowers.

Several years after World War I, in 1927, Cubists Joseph Csaky, Jacques Lipchitz, Louis Marcoussis, Henri Laurens, the sculptor Gustave Miklos, and others collaborated in the decoration of a studio house, rue Saint-James, Neuilly-sur-Seine.

[5] Francois Chapon wrote a book titled C'etait Jacques Doucet about the life and work of the fashion designer.