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Madeleine Vionnet ( pronounced [ma.də.lɛn vjɔ.ne]; June 22, 1876, Loiret, France – March 2, 1975) was a French fashion designer best known for being the “pioneer of the bias cut dress”, [ 1][ 2] Vionnet trained in London before returning to France to establish her first fashion house in Paris in 1912. Although it was forced to close in ...
Jeanne Lanvin was born in Paris on 1 January 1867, the eldest of 11 children of Constantin Lanvin and Sophie Deshayes. She became an apprentice milliner (hat maker) at Madame Félix in Paris at the age of 16. She trained with Suzanne Talbot and Caroline Montagne Roux before becoming a milliner on the rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in 1889.
Erté. Romain de Tirtoff (23 November 1892 – 21 April 1990), known by the pseudonym Erté (from the French pronunciation of his initials: [ɛʁte] ), was a Russian -born French artist and designer. He was a 20th-century artist and designer in an array of fields, including fashion, jewellery, graphic arts, costume, and set design for film ...
Louise Chéruit [1] (née Lemaire; 1866–1955), also known as Madame Chéruit and often erroneously called Madeleine Chéruit, was a French fashion designer.She was among the foremost couturiers of her generation, and one of the first women to control a major French fashion house. [2]
1920s in Western fashion. Appearance. Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford on board the SS Lapland in their honeymoon, 1920. A drawing picturing French women's fashion, c.1921. Typical fashion in California, 1925. Tennis player, Australia, 1924. Western fashion in the 1920s underwent a modernization. Women's fashion continued to evolve ...
Joy by Jean Patou. When the stock market crashed, so did the market for luxury fashion. The House of Patou survived through its perfumes.. The best known of Patou's perfumes is "Joy", a heavy floral scent, based on the most precious rose and jasmine, that remained the costliest perfume in the world, until the House of Patou introduced "1000" (a heavy, earthy floral perfume, based on a rare ...
Gabrielle Bonheur " Coco " Chanel ( / ʃəˈnɛl / shə-NEL, French: [ɡabʁijɛl bɔnœʁ kɔko ʃanɛl] ⓘ; 19 August 1883 – 10 January 1971) [ 2] was a French fashion designer and businesswoman. The founder and namesake of the Chanel brand, she was credited in the post- World War I era with popularising a sporty, casual chic as the ...