Talk about the mother of the bride from hell: In 1904, Marie Anatole Louise Élisabeth, Countess Greffulhe, wore a Worth gown to the wedding of her daughter that captivated le tout Paris with its showy audacity, the sheer nerve of its golden verve. Besides outshining her hapless progeny, the countess, who would probably be totally forgotten but for the fact that she is one of the inspirations for Proust’s Duchesse de Guermantes in “Remembrance of Things Past,” lives on in another respect — the dress that had tongues wagging resides more than a hundred years later in a cabinet in a building on a street in Paris so undistinguished, so ordinary, that you would never in a million years suspect that behind its doors rest 23,000 garments, wrapped individually in 23,000 swaths of muslin.
The Galliera archive includes such pieces as a silk brocade 1957 dress by Balenciaga
A tortoiseshell comb by an anonymous maker, circa 1830
A lambskin belt next to suede gloves with gold metal talons, both made by Schiaparelli around 1936
A 2005 Swarovski crystal-studded wool coat by Yohji Yamamoto with a 1966 Pierre Cardin "Cible" dress of wool and silk crepe
Goatskin gloves, circa 1890, by an unknown maker
Tissue and foam protect a vine of canvas flowers, circa 1910
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