This Saturday
,
September 26
, on the occasion of the exhibition at the Château de Compiègne entitled "An imperial elegance, Memories of the wardrobe of the Empress Eugenie", we evoked the last woman empress of France, a sovereign keen on fashion .
Her detractors nicknamed her "the rag fairy" and criticized her frivolous elegance.
However, the Empress Eugenie played a significant role in the development of the fashion industry by supporting and protecting the couturier Charles-Frederick Worth (1825-1895).
This one makes her exceptional dresses and performances in France and abroad.
The Empress's outfits have a political implication: she liked to talk about her "political toilets" herself.
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On the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the death of Empress Eugenie, an exhibition at the Château de Compiègne presents the largest collection of Empress Eugenie's outfits.
Wife of Napoleon III, Empress of the French for seventeen years, she has always been elegant, praised as a very beautiful and gracious sovereign.
Fascinated by Marie-Antoinette, her outfits are largely inspired by it.
Capelines, crinoline dresses, tiaras… so many sumptuous dresses.
Thanks to the support of Princess Pauline de Metternich, the couturier Charles Frédéric Worth became the supplier of the Empress Eugenie.
Credit: Wikimedia commons / Empress Eugenie surrounded by her ladies by F. Xaver Winterhalter 1853 and Rue des Archives #imperatriceeugenie #mode #secondempire #napoleonIII #compiegne #chateaudecompiegne
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Monday, September 28, it's time
for Fashion Week in Paris.
Obviously we must evoke Charles Frederick Worth again.
This Frenchman of British origin, presented as “the father of haute couture”, began to present collections in Parisian salons.
He had the ingenious idea of parading flesh-and-blood models.
Thanks to him, the clothing industry becomes a sector in its own right, jointly leading the technique and artistic creation.
The couturier transformed sewing into a luxury industry.
Over the years, these presentations become more and more polished: decorations are added as well as music.
Catwalks became an indispensable asset for fashion houses in the 20th century.
The proof is: the parades in 2020 are adapting and reinventing themselves, despite the health situation.
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Paris, the cradle of fashion.
Paris Fashion Week arrives on September 28, 2020. Le Figaro has always echoed the evolution of fashion.
Over the centuries, its pages abound with sections devoted to women's fashion.
To quote a few: "Fashion talks", "Les modes de Paris", Propos feminins ". Not to mention supplements such as" illustrated fashion supplements "or" the Figaro album "created in 1942 . The newspaper continually tries to shed light on French creation and to promote trends. Our photo of the Figaro illustrated from February 1904 shows "la Parisienne" by the painter Henry Caro-Delvaille (1876-1928), an elegant young woman, at the " bewitching smile "specifies the newspaper. This one" seems to handle, with the tips of her pink fingers, the thrill of the big city which Garat (1853-1914) shows us in a quick notation the triumphal way ". #hautecouture #mode #paris #fashion #fashionweek # FigaroIllustré
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Among the big names in French couture: the incomparable Gabrielle Chanel.
The Palais Galliera has paid him a tribute since this Thursday,
October 1
.
It was in 1910 that the young model maker founded her house at n ° 21 rue Cambon.
This is a hat store.
Eight years later Mademoiselle Chanel moved to 31 rue Cambon.
In the meantime, she opens a shop in Deauville where hats, sailor tops and blouses are mixed.
The seamstress is already starting her revolution by imposing flexible and fluid clothes.
Then she launched the famous No. 5 and its beauty products.
Far from the fashion imposed at the time, Chanel invented comfortable clothes by using malleable fabrics such as tweed or jersey.
Symbol of French elegance, it remains famous for its haute couture creations and its perfumes.
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The first retrospective in France on Chanel, the fashion icon, opens this October 1 at the Palais Galliera.
From 1912, the seamstress revolutionized the codes of women's fashion.
The Chanel myth really begins with the creation of its perfume in 1921 and then continues to forge itself with the little black dress, which has become an iconic piece.
Black enters the female wardrobe and the dress is cropped.
Gabrielle Chanel makes it a timeless and elegant piece.
Boyish in the 1920s, today an inexhaustible source of inspiration, the black dress has become a must.
#gabriellechanel #fashion #couturier #hautecouture
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