Hey everyone!
Some moths ago I went the the Gemeente Museum in The Hague. And there was a exposition about high fashion, also known as haute couture. It was awesome!
The main points about this whole exposition were:
- The Birth of Haute Couture;
- The Rules of Haute Couture;
- Haute Couture in the Netherlands;
- Getting Married in Haute Couture.
Also there were some special rooms for designers like Chanel, Christian Dior and Jean Paul Gaultier.
The Birth of Haute Couture.
You might think that a Frenchman started with Haute Couture, but it was an Englishman named Charles Frederick Worth who started.
He moved the Paris and worked in a famous fabric store Gagelin. He gave everyone advice about the fabric.
Then he met Marie Vernet, one of the mannequins of the store. They felt in love and Worth made special dresses for her. But also clients of the Gagelin store were interested in his designs and asked him to make a special dress for them.
So he started an own store with businessman Otto Bobergh, called Worth & Bobergh. And that's how Haute Couture/High Fashion started! A man in a womenscareer.
Here are some of the designs he made:
There are a lot of big backsides in the 19th century
How does a corset looks like ?Pictures: Christian Müller