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Marie-Louise Bruyère (6 October 1883 – ), mostly known as Madame Bruyère, [1] was a French fashion designer of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, operating out of Paris and importing her fashion lines abroad.
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.
Marie-Louise Carven (31 August 1909 – 8 June 2015), born Carmen de Tommaso, was a French fashion designer who founded the house of Carven in 1945. [3] [4] She was noted for her designs for petite women, her use of lightweight fabrics such as lace and pink gingham, and for being one of the first couturieres to launch a prêt-à-porter line. [5]
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]
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] Since 2001 these criteria have been relaxed.
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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, Paris, France) [1] was a French fashion designer, a master couturier during the first two decades of the 20th century.