French fashion designers

For my own artist paper, I chose to study the French fashion house, Christian Dior SE. During the past seven decades, Christian Dior has transformed its brand from just another high end fashion house into a name synonymous with wealth, sophistication, power, dignity, and prestige. Christian Dior stands in a league of its own in our culture. It’s a mega brand with major influence over fashion and business. Instead of spending hours hunting down financial records and hiring practices for a smaller

in the fashion industry starting in 1947, he created the “new look” which altered the female silhouette and strayed from the wartime fabric restrictions following World War II. Dior was a man at the right place and at the right time, he brought beauty and glamour back into the dull clothing worn during and after the war and re-established Paris as the epicenter of Haute Couture. Dior exploded onto the Paris fashion scene and reintroduced femininity and focus on luxury to women 's fashion (Christian

popular supplement for lip stain and proved relatively harmless compared to the use of boot polish as mascara.Perhaps the worst trend was the foundation concocted from a blend of margarine and chalk. The second world war had a profound impact on the fashion industries of Europe and America and consequently on the design of clothing. Chanel had already shut down the in 1939 and other couture houses now began to close their doors. Among the more than ninety houses that carried on business as usual were

one of the most prominent fashion designers of the 20th century. Her contribution in the development of fashion can hardly be underestimated. In fact, she revolutionized fashion in a way, since she was one of the first fashion designers who made women think of themselves first rather than think how they look for their men, which was a traditional view on female fashion at the epoch. In actuality, the significance and her great contribution in the development of fashion as well as 20th century culture

Christian Dior, also known as a French fashion designer. During Dior opening Chanel was 70 years old and begin facing new obstacles. Metmuseum.org states, “The designer faced challenges in this endeavor: securing finances, assembling a new staff, seeking out new fabrics, competing at age seventy against a new generation of designers (Krick, Metmuseum)”. Stated before Chanel comeback hit back within 3 seasons. She renewed her classic looks, and reworked her fashion designs

thought that the fashion industry is high end and advanced because the designers that run the industry creates false and negative portrayals on people, makes models go through unreasonable lifestyle expectations, and cause social issues. The fashion industry is certainly notorious for using heavy image manipulation softwares to portray a “perfect” image. In 1987, Thomas and John Knoll invented photoshop: the world’s largest grayscale image producer to the human race. Since then, fashion has been drastically

style, fashion, and celebrity news. They have so much knowledge about my favorite designers such as Hermes and Chanel. Oh my-gosh, I’m so obsessed and I have fallen head over heels in love with this blog. I believe members of this community what they are doing is keeping up with the latest fashion trends in Paris and all over the world. The blog does

From my reading I have ascertained that there is almost a definite line in fashion. A before Chanel and an after Chanel. With so many revolutionary breakthroughs this designer drew a definite line in the sand with her work. Common fashion staples in the twenty-first century were a direct result of Chanel. Such as the well-known “Little Black Dress” more commonly nicknamed the LBD. According to Jessa Krick who wrote a short article for the Met Museum said the following, “In 1926, American Vogue likened

Bazaar as a fine arts illustrator and then as a fashion editor for Vogue. Main Rousseau Bocher then eventually made his way to Editor in Chief of French Vogue. In 1929 Main Rousseau Bocher had felt as if he had learned all there was to learn about fashion. He decided to combine his first and last name to start a fashion house, in which, he called Mainbocher. Being the only American who owned a Parisian couture house, Mainbocher mostly produced fashions

In medieval society, fashion was controlled by the pyramid of power, which was the feudal system. The way one dressed showed his/her amount of wealth and social class. Fashion was highly influential during medieval times and was often dominated by the kings and queens. Sumptuary laws were put into place to restrict the ordinary people from dressing like the wealthy. As the eras changed and different periods advanced, the style of the people changed accordingly. (Newman.) When the Norman’s invaded