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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.
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.
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]).
Louise Chéruit [1] (née Lemaire; 1866–1955), also known as Madame Chéruit and often erroneously called Madeleine Chéruit, was a French fashion designer.She was among the foremost couturiers of her generation, and one of the first women to control a major French fashion house. [2]
urban street sport involving climbing and leaping, using buildings, walls, curbs to ricochet off much as if one were on a skateboard, often in follow-the-leader style. Originally a phonetic form of the French word parcours, which means "a run, a route" Also known as, or the predecessor to, "free running", developed by Sébastien Foucan. parole
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.