France had been the center of fashion for years and the war slowed, though did not stop entirely, production and distribution of new fashions. It was bought by Laurent Brun. Education: Studied at the Collége Fe… GUILLEMIN, Olivier He had drifted in and out of love affairs and now longed for something more stable. He collected the work of those who would become the era's leading artists, among them In 1908 Poiret began printing the designs he commissioned in limited-edition catalogs, which he sent to his customers. Whether inspired or reinforced by Bakst, certain near-Eastern effects: the softly ballooning legs, turbans, and the surplice neckline and tunic effect became Poiret signatures.While there are some designers associated with specific flowers (Chanel and the camellia, Dior and the lily-of-the-valley) no one can claim the achievement of having reinvented a flower in such a way as to have it always identified with them. Eventually the shop at Rue Auber became too small to contain Poiret's growing business, and he moved into a house on Rue Pasquier. Education: Studied art history at the Sorbonne, Paris, 1978-80, and Stu… Paul Smith's College of Arts and Sciences: Narrative DescriptionPaul Smith's College of Arts and Sciences: Tabular Data
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Although he had some formal fashion training,… GIVENCHY, Hubert de Therefore, it’s best to use Encyclopedia.com citations as a starting point before checking the style against your school or publication’s requirements and the most-recent information available at these sites:At the time women regularly wore corsets, stiff, tight-fitting undergarments. For women, military uniforms had elements of current fashion: the long skirts with tunics or jackets worn over them were reminiscent of civilian dress.
Martine, named after one of Poiret's daughters, opened 1 April 1911 as a school of decorative art. Bolton, Authors: Harold Koda, Andrew. Paul Poiret (1879–1944) was the most popular designer of the pre-World War I period, perhaps best known for his hobble (or pencil) skirt design, a vertical, tight-bottomed style that forced women to walk by taking tiny steps. While Poiret's impulse seems to have been primarily aesthetic, the fact that it coincided with the crusade of suffragists taking up where Amelia Bloomer had left off, served to bring about a real change in how women dressed. Decorated in patriotic French colors, Delices was a restaurant decorated with red anemones; Amours was decorated with blue Martine carnations; and Orgues was white featuring fourteen canvases by Dufy depicting regattas at Poiret's interest in the fine, contemporary arts of the day began while he was still quite young.