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The Chambre syndicale also recognizes foreign grands couturiers who do not show in Paris, referring to them as "membres correspondants". Members of the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode [ edit ]
Lucien Lelong (pronounced [lysjɛ̃ ləlɔ̃]; 11 October 1889 – 11 May 1958) [1] was a French couturier who was prominent from the 1920s to the 1940s. His couture fashion house was one of the largest in Paris in the interwar period, [2]: 76 and Lelong was an important figure in the management of the French fashion industry during World War II.
The Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode is defined as "the regulating commission that determines which fashion houses are eligible to be true haute couture houses". Their rules state that only "those companies mentioned on the list drawn up each year by a commission domiciled at the Ministry for Industry are entitled to avail ...
Jeanne Paquin was born Jeanne Marie Charlotte Beckers in 1869. Her father was a physician. [1] She was one of five children. [2]Sent out to work as a young teenager, Jeanne trained as a dressmaker at Rouff (a Paris couture house established in 1884 and located on Boulevard Haussmann [3] [4]).
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 ...
Kasha Paris is a French interior architecture firm and real estate company focusing on luxury real estate in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés area on the Left Bank of Paris. Founded in 2004 as "A+B Kasha", the company began by creating turnkey apartments on the Left Bank of Paris, [ 1 ] restoring apartments built in the 17th and 18th century and ...
Robert Couturier is a graduate of the École Camondo in Paris. He moved to New York in 1981. [3] In 1987, Sir James Goldsmith commissioned Couturier to re-conceptualize his 30,000-acre nature reserve on the Pacific Coast of Mexico.
Several years after World War I, in 1927, Cubists Joseph Csaky, Jacques Lipchitz, Louis Marcoussis, Henri Laurens, the sculptor Gustave Miklos, and others collaborated in the decoration of a studio house, rue Saint-James, Neuilly-sur-Seine. The hôtel particulier, owned by Doucet was designed by the architect Paul Ruaud. Laurens designed the ...