Jacques Fath was born in Maisons-Laffitte on September 6, 1912 and died in Paris on November, 13, 1954.

He remains undoubtedly one of the most influential post-war fashion designers with Christian Dior and Pierre Balmain.

He is the son of André, an insurance agent. The Fath family both from Flemish and Alsatian origin counts several "artistic callings":
Theodore-Georges Fath and Caroline his great grandparents are writer and fashion illustrator; René-Maurice, his grandfather,
is a landscape painter.

Brilliant self-taught creator himself, curious and eager for exhibitions, museums and for fashionable usual books,
he will surround himself during his brief career with young talented assistants of which most brilliant, Hubert de Givenchy,
who created rapidly his own fashion house.

In 1937, Jacques Fath presents his first collection in a small two-room apartment, in the Boetie’s street.

Then in 1940, he definitely relocates his team from Francois 1er’s street to 39, rue Pierre 1er de Serbie,
until November 1954 when death will put a rough term in his lightning career.

Magnificent artist, prolific creator, he finds his inspiration in the beauty of flowers for his collection "Lys" in 1950,
as well as in the women who surround him, models and customers. Lucky, who became later the first model for
Dior; Bettina; Geneviève Boucher, who he married in 1939, mother of his son Philippe; and the extremely famous Greta Garbo,
Ava Gardner and Rita Hayworth for who he created a bridal gown for her wedding with the Prince Ali Khan in Vallauris in 1949.

Geneviève, his wife, took over the fashion house’s direction after his death until 1957.