Tag Archives: haute couture

Returning to Paris she came into contact with Madame Gerber, one of three sisters who headed the couture house Callot Soeurs, at the time one of the most well-known in France. Having gained experience, she founded her own couture house in 1912, which met the haute couture clothing requirements of …

  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 …

D’Annunzio’s muse on Hollywood red carpet. She was Martinetti, Beaton and Cocteau’s inspiration. D’Annunzio adored her. “The only woman I heard him talking about with reverence” according to the biographer Andrè Germani. Boldini and Man Ray portrayed her with her enigmatic smile of Belle Èpoque Madonna, wrapped up in midnight …

“ALBINIANA” at Palazzo Pitti The exhibition recently opened at the ‘Galleria del Costume’ in Palazzo Pitti accompanies the presentation of the book: “All power to the imagination. Walter Albini and his time.” In Walter Abini’s Italy fashion was not art. In the fifties, at the time of the reconstruction and …