ROCHAS MEN'S GUN METAL GREY LUXURY BLAZER (MEDIUM)

Cool wool, no appliqués, basic solid color, long sleeves, single-breasted, multi-pockets, single chest pocket, fully lined, stretch. 60% Wool, 38% Polyester, 2% Elastane. Color: GUN-METAL GREAT TAILORING GREAT FABRIC GREAT JACKET LIGHT Marcel Rochas was once the most sought-after couturier in Paris. A new book, curated by his daughter, celebrates his life and work If contemporaries such as Coco Chanel, Elsa Schiaparelli, and Christian Dior are card-carrying members of the 20th-century fashion canon, the name of Marcel Rochas is more obscure, despite the house that still bears his name and its collections Alessandro Dell’Aqua collections. “Everything he did was feminine, which was new because at the time it was all about Chanel’s garconne,” He was always reinventing, full of ideas, and a kind of architect.” His designs could be seen as the polar opposite of Chanel’s simplicity. Dresses were proper gowns and came with the optimum amount of frills, with lace, wide shoulders, and nipped-in waists. His three wives – Sophie is the daughter of the third, Hélène – wore the clothes as his glamorous muses to parties (the book features the photographic evidence), and Rochas himself was something of a pin-up. “He was very handsome, like the [Rudolph] Valentino of couture,” says Sophie. “Women were crazy about him.” Rochas died in 1955 at the age of 53. PHOTOS Marcel Rochas 1937 Mermaid evening gown in ivory gros de Tours, bustier with cannetille embroidery, rhinestones, and beads, 1948.