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However, such creations required materials specially designed for her in widths which are cannot be produced today due to the utilization of the oblique grain. Many of Vionnet’s 1930’s creations (created also with Maison Universal) are of such elaborate construction that they are irreproducible even by the most skilled designers. …

  This modeling technique would revolutionize the way the female body was perceived which, in the first decades of the 1900’s, had already undergone various modification with the abandoning of the corset and the custom of already practicing sports at a young age. The technique of the oblique cut is …