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Paul Poiret (20 April 1879 – 30 April 1944, Paris, France) [1] was a French fashion designer, a master couturier during the first two decades of the 20th century. He was the founder of his namesake haute couture house.
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Born in Paris, France in 1871 as Jeanne Poiret, the designer grew up in the city's First Arrondissement. Her father, Auguste, worked as a cloth merchant and her mother was well educated for the time. [1] Jeanne was one of four children and her younger brother, Paul Poiret, would go on to be a prominent couturier in Paris at the height of the ...
Groult was born on 31 January 1920 in Paris. She was the daughter of André Groult and Nicole Poiret, sister of Paul Poiret and herself a fashion designer, and was raised in the Parisian upper class. Groult attended the Sorbonne, where she studied Latin and Greek. [1]
Since 1981, nearly 39 million people globally have died from AIDS-related illnesses, the result of HIV if left untreated. In the 1980s and '90s, the height of the epidemic, gay and bisexual men ...
“I wasn’t ready to die,” Paul Edmonds, 68, told ABC News last year. ... effectively being cured of the AIDS-causing virus and leukemia. He died in 2020 after battling cancer at age 54. ...
In 1909, Dufy was commissioned by Paul Poiret to design stationery for the house. After 1912, he designed textile patterns for Bianchini-Ferier, which were used for garments worn by Poiret and Charvet. The Bois de Boulogne is a dress that was designed by Paul Poiret, textile design by Dufy, and textile manufactured by Bianchini-Ferier. Dufy had ...
Fashion designer Virgil Abloh has died at age 41 after a long, private battle with cancer, the luxury goods group LVMH has announced. In addition to founding the Off-White fashion house in 2012 ...