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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. He was the founder of his namesake haute couture house.
Andrew Bolton. The Costume Institute, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. September 2008. Every decade has its seer or sybil of style, a designer who, above all others, is able to divine and define the desires of women. In the 1910s, this oracle of the mode was Paul Poiret, known in America as “The King of Fashion.”.
Paul Poiret was an innovative French couturier who dressed Paris’ finest before World War I. He epitomized Art Deco fashion and is credited with freeing women from corsets as well as introducing new silhouettes like the hobble skirt, harem pants, and lampshade tunic.
Paul Poiret (born April 20, 1879, Paris, France—died April 30, 1944, Paris) was a French couturier, the most fashionable dress designer of pre-World War I Paris. Poiret was particularly noted for his Neoclassical and Orientalist styles, for advocating the replacement of the corset with the brassiere , and for the introduction of the hobble ...
Designer Paul Poiret (1879 – 1944) led the fashion world in the first decade of the 20th century. This extract from his 1931 autobiography, 'King of Fashion', tells of his meteoric rise to fame, designing dresses for the esteemed Parisian couturier, House of Worth.
Nov 7, 2017 · Paul Poiret was an unparalleled innovator in the world of fashion. He liberated women from the corset, draping them in exquisite, oriental-inspired creations, invented the concept of...
Oct 20, 2022 · “I am an artist, not a dressmaker,” the acclaimed French designer Paul Poiret once claimed—and rightfully so. Known as the “King of Fashion” at the height of his popularity in the 1910s, Poiret was an avant-garde visionary.
Paul Poiret est un grand couturier et parfumeur français né le 20 avril 1879 à Paris 1er et mort le 28 avril 1944 à Paris 17e 2 . Connu pour ses audaces, il est considéré comme un précurseur du style Art déco. Il crée la maison de couture qui porte son nom en 1903. Biographie. Famille.
Paul Poiret dominated haute couture in the first decade of the twentieth century. Known in America as the "King of Fashion," he liberated women from constricting undergarments, most significantly from the corset, which had shaped the female form almost without interruption for hundreds of years.
More than any other designer of the twentieth century, Paul Poiret (1879–1944) elevated fashion to the status of an artform.
