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The official criteria, designed in 1945, originally implied presenting a certain number of original models each season, created by a permanent designer, handmade and bespoke models, a minimum number of people employed in the workshop and a minimum number of patterns "presented usually in Paris". [1]
Haute couture (/ ˌ oʊ t k uː ˈ tj ʊər / ⓘ; French pronunciation: [ot kutyʁ]; French for 'high sewing', 'high dressmaking') is the creation of exclusive custom-fitted high-end fashion design. The term haute couture generally refers to a specific type of upper garment common in Europe during the 16th to the 18th century, or to the upper ...
They sent dresses from their prestigious designers to demonstrate French fashion at the Panama Pacific International Exposition of 1915. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Dresses designed by Georges Doeuillet can be found at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, [ 14 ] the Musée des Arts Décoratifs at the Louvre in Paris , [ 15 ] the Fabyan Villa ...
Coco Chanel, French designer revolutionised fashion world, in the post-World War I era. France renewed its dominance of the high fashion (French: couture or haute couture) industry in the years 1860–1960 through the establishing of the great couturier houses, the fashion press (Vogue was founded in 1892 in US, and 1920 in France) and fashion ...
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L'Officiel was first published in 1921. [4] [5] It was the official publication of the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne, a trade body representing all Paris couturiers, [6]: 83 and took over the role of Les Elégances Parisiennes, a joint publication of a group of about twenty-five couturiers which became defunct in 1922.
Vionnet is an haute couture label founded by the French couturier Madeleine Vionnet.Established in 1912, the house of Vionnet closed doors in 1939. Vionnet was relaunched by Guy and Arnaud de Lummen in the mid-1990s with perfumes and accessories, and then in 2006 with ready-to-wear collections.
Couture, Charente, in the Charente département, France; Couture-d'Argenson, in the Deux-Sèvres département, France; Couture-sur-Loir, in the Loir-et-Cher département, France; La Couture (disambiguation), locations in France