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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.
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.
A grand couturier is a member of the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode. Criteria. The official criteria, designed in 1945, ...
Valentine Avoh; Maggy Baum; Dirk Bikkembergs; Veronique Branquinho; Christophe Coppens; Tim Coppens; Jules-François Crahay; Angele Delanghe; Ann Demeulemeester
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 ...
French fashion, particularly haute couture, became a fixture of France's post-war prestige-based commercial diplomacy, combining nation branding and export branding. [22] The first modern Parisian couturier house is generally considered the work of the Englishman Charles Frederick Worth, who dominated the industry from 1858 to 1895. [23]
Paquita Parodi’s collection features costumes from the 1920s like the “Flame Dress” (left) in pink silk and red velvet, made in 1926 by the French couturier Madeleine Vionnet.
The following is a chronological list of French artists working in visual or plastic media (plus, for some artists of the 20th century, performance art). For alphabetical lists, see the various subcategories of Category:French artists. See other articles for information on French literature, French music, French cinema and French culture.