The house of worth, 1858-1954
Subtitle: the birth of haute couture
By: Chantal Trubert-Tollui [and 3 others] ; foreword by Christian Lacroix ; text translated from the French by Barbara Mellor
Contributors: Lacroix, Christian, 1951- writer of foreword; Mellor, Barbara, translator
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780500519431
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Fashion design; House of Worth (Firm); History; Biography; Fashion designers
Work titles: Maison Worth
Description: Charles Frederick Worth would go on to build the most prominent, innovative, and successful fashion house of the century. He was inspired by a love of fine art, luxurious fabrics, and his vision of the female ideal, and was the first to set out to dictate new styles and silhouettes to his elite clientele? Not the other way around. He hosted them in his rue de la Paix salons, which included groundbreaking sportswear and maternity departments as well as silk, velvet, and brocade rooms, and a special salon with closed shutters and gas lighting designed to allow clients to try on ball gowns in lighting conditions precisely matched to those of the event at which they would be worn.
Notes: Translation of: Maison Worth.

Translator from colophon.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-325) and index.