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Madeleine Vionnet ( Chilleurs-aux Bois, 22 Giugno 1876 – Parigi, 2 Marzo 1975) has been a french stylist.
Creator of one of the most prestigious haute couture labels (the Maison Vionnet) in all of France, which put her amoung the precursors of the twentieth century fashion revolution, through the process of liberating woman from the cumbersome nineteenth-century corsets and the wide skirts held in place by whalebone hoops.
Daughter of a custom’s officer who came from Giura and lived in Auberville, Abel Vionnet, she was abandoned by her mother when Madeleine was still a child.
Having moved in with her father, in search of work opportunities, in Paris , she left school at only ten years of age and she entered a couture house where worked the wife of one of her fathers’ friends.
Married at eighteen, she moved to England to work for Kate Reilly who created clothing for the English court.
