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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]
With help from friends, Hubert de Givenchy, Pierre Cardin, and Yves Saint Laurent, Grès was able to rent an apartment in the 16th arrondissement in Paris and continue sewing garments for friends. [1] In 1993, Grès's daughter, Anne, moved her to a retirement home in near Toulon, France. Grès died on 24 November 1993, at age 89. [15]
Saint Joseph Artisan is a Roman Catholic Church located at 214 rue LaFayette in the 10th arrondissement of Paris. It was built in 1865-1866 by the architect Lucien Douillard in the style of Neogothic architecture. His other major work included the church of Saint-Andrei de l'Europe in the 8th arrondissement.
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.
Christie's International Real Estate is an international network of independently owned luxury real estate firms with more than 400 offices and approximately 10,000 real estate agents in nearly 50 countries and territories around the world. The brand is separately owned but strategically partnered with Christie’s, the fine art auction house.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...