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- Looking to both antique and regional dress types, most notably to the Greek chiton, the Japanese kimono, and the North African and Middle Eastern caftan, Poiret advocated fashions cut along straight lines and constructed of rectangles. Such an emphasis on flatness and planarity required a complete reversal of the optical effects of fashion.
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Poiret’s process of design through draping is the source of fashion’s modern forms. It introduced clothing that hung from the shoulders and facilitated a multiplicity of possibilities. Poiret exploited its fullest potential by launching, in quick succession, a series of designs that were startling in their simplicity and originality.
- Paul Poiret | Opera coat | French | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This opera coat of yellow and pale blue silk satin, black...
- Poiret | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Working with fabric directly on the body, Poiret pioneered a...
- Paul Poiret | Opera coat | French | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
“I am an artist, not a dressmaker.” Paul Poiret. Who was Paul Poiret? 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 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.
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 the...
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.
Working with fabric directly on the body, Poiret pioneered a radical approach to dressmaking that relied on the skills of draping rather than tailoring and pattern making. Looking to antique and regional dress, Poiret advocated clothing cut along straight lines and constructed of rectangles.
