Figurine

Drawing of a female figurine painted in watercolour for the haute couture firm Pedro Rodríguez. \This model must have been designed for Mary Carmen Abréu, one of Pedro Rodríguez's models, to wear it at an event during the couturier's second trip to the Philippines in February 1965, also visiting Formosa, Hong Kong and Japan. \Mary Carmen Abréu was Miss Madrid and first maid of honor of Miss Spain in 1963. It is then when Pedro Rodriguez meets her and hires her as a model for his firm. \Pedro Rodríguez was born in Valencia in 1895 and died in Barcelona in 1990. He opened his Haute Couture house in 1919, which was the first to be opened in Spain, and in 1940 he founded the Haute Couture Cooperative, of which he was president until his death. He was the first Spanish couturier to present his models on live mannequins on which he modelled the fabric with just pins and scissors. Afterwards, the pattern and the drawing were made, which had a fabric sample stapled to it, and all this was passed on to the workshops where the models were made.