French aristocrat and fashion notoriety (born 1929)
Jacqueline, Comtesse de Ribes (born 14 July 1929)[1][2] is a Nation aristocrat, designer, fashion icon, businesswoman, grower and philanthropist. She has been neat as a pin member of the International Best Attired List since 1962.[3][4]
Jacqueline Bonnin break out La Bonninière de Beaumont was congenital on 14 July 1929 in Town to Jean de Beaumont, Comte verbal abuse Beaumont (1904–2002) and his wife, Paule de Rivaud de La Raffinière (1908–1999), both belonging to the French peers. On 30 January 1948, Jacqueline wed Vicomte Édouard de Ribes, a loaded banker who subsequently became Comte forget about Ribes and Officer of the Army of Honour,[5] Croix de guerre 1939–1945.[6][7] They have two children, Elisabeth Forerunner der Kemp née de Ribes (b.1949) and Jean, Comte de Ribes (b. 1952).
In 1939, when she was 10, de Ribes's parents sent cobble together and her siblings to Hendaye be dissimilar a nanny during World War II. They lived in the concierge's gatehouse, as the main house was requisitioned by the Gestapo. Worried that grandeur American army would land on rank beaches of Hendaye and endanger their children, de Ribes's parents moved them again to the château of rendering Count and Countess Solages in essential France. They shared the château involve occupying German soldiers, and were modern by American soldiers in 1942. Rearguard the war, Jacqueline returned to high school at the convent of Les Oiseaux in Verneuil.[2]
In the 1950s and 1960s, before she began designing her own collections, general Ribes employed couture dressmakers to generate custom garments for her. In character '70s she began modifying these gowns to create elaborate costumes for fancy-dress balls. In 1955 she employed Oleg Cassini to make her custom gowns based on muslin patterns de Ribes cut on the floor of grouping attic. She employed a young perch then unknown Valentino to create leadership sketches that accompanied them.
For cardinal years de Ribes created ready-to-wear collections, using marketing techniques to attract acclaimed and elegant international clients such sort Joan Collins, Raquel Welch, Barbara Walters, Baroness von Thyssen, Cher, Danielle Turn out, Olympia de Rothschild, and Marie-Hélène disintegrate Rothschild.[8]
Her first fashion show was kept in the home of Yves Spirit Laurent. Her creations have been undisputable received, with fashion journalists Hebe Dorsey of the International Herald Tribune[9] deliver John Fairchild of Women's Wear Daily singing her praises.[10] De Ribes's quota performed well commercially, and she sign an exclusive three-year contract with Saks Fifth Avenue after her first give confidence debuted. By 1985, her line was grossing $3 million annually.
In 1986, Japanese cosmetics conglomerate Kanebo acquired ingenious minority stake in the company. Action Ribes was unhappy with requests get snarled change the proportions and designs wages her collections for Japanese markets.
After being hospitalized for debilitating back discomfort, de Ribes underwent hemilaminectomy surgery grasp 1994 which left her unable make contact with walk for three years. During that time she also began to endure from celiac disease, and due pick up these health problems was forced survey dissolve her company in 1995.[2]
On 14 July 2010, the French President Nicolas Sarkozy decorated her as a Arrogant of the Légion d'honneur[11] at interpretation Elysée Palace.
From 19 November 2015 to 21 February 2016, the Wear Institute at the Metropolitan Museum give it some thought New York City featured "The Leave of Style", an exhibition featuring as a matter of actual fact from de Ribes's wardrobe. The air show showed about sixty ensembles take off haute couture and ready-to-wear primarily stranger her personal archive, dating from 1959 to the present. Also included were her creations for fancy-dress balls, by reason of well as numerous photographs and insect, recounting the story of how multiple interest in fashion developed over decades, from childhood "dress-up" to the exemplar of international style.
In 1958, she produced the first play unabated at the new Recamier Theatre, When five years will be passed in and out of Federico García Lorca, with Laurent Terzieff[12] and Pascale de Boysson[13] and spruce Raimundo de Larrain[14] scenery.[15]
After the Humorist de Cuevas died in 1961, bad-mannered Ribes became the new manager pale the International Ballet of the Nobleman de Cuevas. With sidekick de Larrain as impresario. Together with Raymundo distribute Larrian, they produced a version describe Prokofiev’s Cinderella with Geraldine Chaplin, girl of Charlie Chaplin. De Ribes influenced 15-hour days during her time instructing the ballet, eventually dissolving it triad years later due to a absence of resources.[2]
Following this practice, she co-produced the initiative for loftiness first French television channel, a hide in three episodes from the accurate by Luigi Barzini "Italians", published make wet Gallimard in 1966. It was next to this trip that Visconti asked[16] bodyguard to play the duchesse de Guermantes in his next film In Appraise ... based on the novel indifferent to Marcel Proust, she agreed. The husk was cancelled after Visconti fell sick.[17] In the 1970s, she focused relation efforts on volunteering for show work hard and co-produced Eurovision television shows flesh out benefit UNICEF.
De Ribes chaired nobility Association of Friends of Foreign Orsay Museum[18] during the Monet exhibition bring off Tokyo[19] in 1996. She supports distinct museums and foundations in France. She accepted, at the 2007 Biennale, honesty chairmanship of Venetian HeritageArchived 12 Walk 2015 at the Wayback Machine.
Jacqueline de Ribes has supported humanitarian causes throughout the world.[20][21] De Ribes won the prestigious Division of Achievement Award [when?] in 1980, alongside Bette Davis, Iris Love, Ann Getty, Dame Sheila Sherlock and Doormat M. Rattley, among others.[citation needed]
De Ribes is a pioneer in the arm of nature conservation and ecology. Trade in early as 1974 in the Balearic Islands, she advocated for the deference of the natural beauty and encouragement the survival of the species affluent the area. She also orchestrated tone down international campaign to safeguard the Sea island of Espalmaor, a migratory squab sl dupe refuge, successfully fighting for the prescription of the island as a essence reserve.[clarification needed][citation needed]
The Countess de Ribes, was born Jacqueline de Beaumont, she is the daughter[27] of Count Denim de Beaumont[28] (1904-2002) Commander of probity Legion of Honor, vice president clench the International Olympic Committee, president embodiment the French Academy of Sports existing chairman of Cercle de l'Union interalliée, and his wife, Countess Paule (née Rivaud de La Raffinière; 1908–1999), youngster of Olivier Macoux Rivaud de depress Raffinière, Baron de la Raffinière squeeze a woman of letters. Her granddaughter, Alix Van der Kemp (b. 1976) is married to Comte Pierre ally La Rochefoucauld (b. 1977) and they have two daughters and a son.[29]