Worth: Inventing haute couture.
GROSSIORD Sophie, KISIEL Marine and MARTIN-PIGALLE Raphaële. Exhibition catalog, Petit Palais, Paris 2025.

Worth: Inventing haute couture.

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N° d'inventaire 32521
Format 24x30 cm.
Détails 272 p., numerous color illustrations, publisher's hardcover.
Publication Paris, 2025.
Etat Nine.
ISBN 9782759606078

Dedicated to the couturier Charles Frederick Worth (1825-1895) and to the
house that he founded, this work traces its chronology on
four generations, from 1858 to 1954.
A vast fresco which unfolds through a rich iconography and
of scientific texts describing a major turning point in history
of late 19th and early 20th century fashion: the invention
of haute couture. From the Second Empire to the Roaring Twenties, a page
history is being written: the establishment of the figure of the great couturier
and new creation and marketing techniques,
founders of how fashion works today. This book by
reference testifies to exceptional know-how put to the service
of dazzling creativity
A reference work, which bears witness to an emerging world combining creativity and exceptional know-how.

Texts by Miren Arzalluz, Alex Aubry, Elizabeth Block, Carole
Damour, William DeGregorio, Sophie Grossiord, Émilie Hammen,
Amy de la Haye, César Imbert, Marine Kisiel, Camille Kovalevsky,
Raphaële Martin-Pigalle, Fabrice Olivieri, Anastasia Ozoline, Pascale
Pavageau and Wilfried Zeisler

Dedicated to the couturier Charles Frederick Worth (1825-1895) and to the
house that he founded, this work traces its chronology on
four generations, from 1858 to 1954.
A vast fresco which unfolds through a rich iconography and
of scientific texts describing a major turning point in history
of late 19th and early 20th century fashion: the invention
of haute couture. From the Second Empire to the Roaring Twenties, a page
history is being written: the establishment of the figure of the great couturier
and new creation and marketing techniques,
founders of how fashion works today. This book by
reference testifies to exceptional know-how put to the service
of dazzling creativity
A reference work, which bears witness to an emerging world combining creativity and exceptional know-how.

Texts by Miren Arzalluz, Alex Aubry, Elizabeth Block, Carole
Damour, William DeGregorio, Sophie Grossiord, Émilie Hammen,
Amy de la Haye, César Imbert, Marine Kisiel, Camille Kovalevsky,
Raphaële Martin-Pigalle, Fabrice Olivieri, Anastasia Ozoline, Pascale
Pavageau and Wilfried Zeisler