Jacques Doucet (fashion designer)
Jacques Doucet (French pronunciation: [ʒak du.sɛ]) (1853–1929) was a French fashion designer and art collector. He is known for his elegant dresses, made with flimsy translucent materials in superimposing pastel colors.
Dress, 1880s
Ball gown, 1898–1900
Afternoon dress, ca 1903
Dress, 1914
Suit, 1915
Dress, 1917
Day Dress, 1920–1923
A collector of art and literature throughout his life, by the time of his death he had a collection of Post-Impressionist and Cubist paintings, including Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, which he bought directly from Picasso's studio, as well as two major book collections which he donated to the French nation. Doucet's collection of art books and research, which he gave to the University of Paris in 1917, became the core of the university's Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie and was eventually transferred to the Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art in 2003. At his death in 1929, his collection of manuscripts by contemporary writers for which the university created in his honour the Bibliothèque littéraire Jacques-Doucet.[5] Francois Chapon wrote a book titled C'etait Jacques Doucet about the life and work of the fashion designer.[6]