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He created a new fashion footprint shifting it to the prêt-à-porter (ready-to-wear) market. After a visit to New York's Brooks Brothers store, Albert Goldberg produced a collection of ready to wear outfits for men and renamed the business 'Façonnable', a variation of the word "Façonner" (English: "to shape").
The association of France with fashion and style (la mode) is widely credited as beginning during the reign of Louis XIV [5] when the luxury goods industries in France came increasingly under royal control and the French royal court became, arguably, the arbiter of taste and style in Europe.
Sandro was founded in 1984 by Évelyne Chetrite with the help of her husband as a premium contemporary brand positioned between luxury designer brands and mass market brands. [1] [4] Évelyne Chetrite has described the philosophy of the brand as "casual but always chic" and "sophisticated but cool." [4]
Pierre Balmain S.A. (French:), trading as Balmain, is a French luxury fashion house that was founded by Pierre Balmain (1914–1982) in 1945. It operates over 50 stores. Its primary flagship is located on Rue Saint-Honoré in Paris. [1] Additional flagship locations are in Tokyo, New York City, London, and on Via Montenapoleone in Milano.
In 1987, Jean Touitou created a clothing line which would later become the A.P.C. brand. The clothes from this first menswear collection wear labels that only mention “HIVER 1987”. [ 1 ] It was only in 1989 that the labels referring to the seasons are replaced with A.P.C. labels, confirming the creation of the brand.
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.
A sicko textile worker ran a “rape room” at the at the Queens factory of a major British clothing brand, French Connection, where he openly preyed on female colleagues, a new lawsuit claims.
Several flight attendant uniforms were designed by the Nina Ricci brand. Nina Ricci is also a pioneer of licensing their designs before the rise of ready-to-wear. As early as 1960, they started licensing their patterns to upscale boutiques such as Chez Ninon in New York City and Betty Clemo in Hong Kong for 'line-to-line' reproduction.