Figurine

Drawing made with black ink and stamped with grey, pink and purple spots. It is located on the left side of the paper. \Carlos Berges Roldán (Jaén January 11, 1935), is one of the main exponents of Spanish fashion in the 1960s and 1970s and one of the last representatives of Haute Couture in Spain. \Although he had studied Law at the University of Granada, in 1958 he decided to follow his true vocation by moving to Paris to take an intensive design course at the 'Chambre Sindicale de la Couture Parisienne'. He returns to Madrid in 1959 and begins to work as a designer in the house of Haute Couture Caruncho while collaborating with the magazine 'Blanco y Negro' as a designer, and in 1960, along with another partner, opens the boutique 'Bazaar' in Velázquez 61. \From 1962 to 1967 he works as a fur designer for the firm Gunther Jeckel in the 'Bonwit Teller' warehouse in New York and in other fur and ready-to-wear firms in Toronto and Montreal in Canada where he designs dresses, tailored suits, evening dresses and headwear. \He returns to Spain in 1967 creating then his own Haute Couture firm Carlos Berges, first in Juan de Mena street and later in Tamayo y Baus nº 6, where he carried out all his career until his retirement in the 1990s.