STORY OF FASHION ll; QUEEN MARIE ANTOINETTE UNTIL COCO CHANEL - JEANE LANVIN

The first French fashion designer of eminence was Rose Bertin, who by 1776 was modiste to Queen Marie Antoinette of France . During the Napoleonic age the designer Louis Hippolyte Leroy create apparel for the Empress Josephine. The man who created The Parisian fashion industry as it is know today, however, was an Englishman working in Paris, Charles Frederick Worth, who became (1885) the fashion arbiter to the Empress Euginie. He create the first couter house with its fashion show , mannequins, sales staff, dressmakers, and Paris labels; the house Worth continued in the family until 1956.

Paul poiret created the first revolution in 20^th - century dress about 1910, when he freed women from corsets and introduced oriental style costumes of turbans and hobble skirt.

In the 1920s, Coco Chanel replaced poiret's exoticisms with simple classic suits and dresses of retrained color.

Jeanne Lanvin's career began with her design for her daughter 's clothes, and this free and innocent effect, which was often created with costly brocades and lames, became her matier.