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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]
Poiret illustrations by Paul Iribe, 1908 Poiret harem pants and sultana skirts, 1911 Model in a Poiret dress, 1914 Model in a Poiret suit, 1914. Paul Poiret (20 April 1879 – 30 April 1944) [1] was a French fashion designer, a master couturier during the first two decades of the 20th century.
Jean-Louis Scherrer (19 February 1935 – 20 June 2013) was a Parisian fashion designer and couturier.Although he had name recognition and was known for his work, he is mainly noted for being the first couture designer to be sacked from their own-name label in 1992.
French couturier Pierre Cardin, who made his name by selling designer clothes to the masses, and his fortune by being the first to exploit that name as a brand for selling everything from cars to ...
Couturier at his concert with Anja Lechner in the Stadtkirche Darmstadt on October 11, 2015 François Couturier (born 2 May 1950 in Fleury-les-Aubrais , Orléans ) is a French jazz pianist . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
A couturier may make what is known as haute couture. [15] Such a person usually hires patternmakers and machinists for garment production, and is either employed by exclusive boutiques or is self-employed. [citation needed] The couturier Charles Frederick Worth is widely considered the father of haute couture as it is known today.
Grès was born Germaine Émilie Krebs to a middle-class French Jewish family [7] and raised in Paris, France. Early in life, she studied painting and sculpting. [8] Grès originally dreamed of becoming a sculptor, but after many objections made by her family she shifted her interests towards the art of fashion design and clothing making. [6]
Madeleine Vionnet is considered one of the most influential fashion designers of the 20th century. Both her bias cut and her urbanely sensual approach to couture remain a strong and pervasive influence on contemporary fashion, as evidenced by the collections of such past and present-day designers as Ossie Clark, Halston, John Galliano, Comme des Garçons, Azzedine Alaia, Issey Miyake and Marchesa.