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Paul Poiret (French, Paris 1879–1944 Paris) 1920. Evening ensemble. Paul Poiret (French, Paris 1879–1944 Paris) fall/winter 1928–29. Resources for Research.
Oct 20, 2022 · ‘Chez Poiret’, cover of Les Modes, with designs by Paul Poiret, drawn by Georges Barbier, April 1912. Kunstmuseum Den Haag Other firsts included collaborating with leading artists and photographers, hosting lavish theme parties where guests were dressed in his designs, and taking his collections on tour, initiating the first trunk shows.
May 11, 2007 · Poiret drew from a broad range of sources. Early in the show there is a trio of nightgowns, based on the Classical Greek gown known as the chiton, that are precursors to the 1950s negligee and the ...
Aug 21, 2015 · Paul Poiret (1879-1944) Paul Poiret was the party boy of Paris who is the unsung hero of 20th century fashion. In the first instalment in BoF’s fashion history series, we learn that Poiret dressed Paris’ finest before World War I, but as the years went on, his inability to adapt to '20s modernity led to the collapse of his company.
Poiret's chemise dresses were even simpler in cut than the undergarments from which they were derived. Although the nineteenth-century chemise had a similar cut, in Poiret's version the shaping of shoulder seams, the insertion of shoulder yokes, or the accommodation of the bust through darts and gussets, were eliminated.
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. At the end of my military service, I thought of returning to my habitual ...
May 9, 2007 · Paul Iribe designed Poiret's rose motif. Of all his collaborations with artists and illustrators, Poiret was proudest of his introduction of Iribe to a wider audience. Iribe was responsible for a publication early in the designer's career, Les robes de Paul Poiret (1908), that not only promoted the increasingly influential couturier, but also ...
