Madeline vionnet

Madeleine Vionnet (1876 – 1975) was a French fashion designer that is influential in the 20th century and inspired me as much as Madame Gres. photograph by Irving Penn for Vionnet, 1974 she was known for introducing bias-cutting into pattern making. it is indeed a revolutionary way of draping fabric, clinging on the body beautifully - simple but never plain. Vionnet's goddess gown, 1935; recalling the Greek look in the early 20th century, she freed women from corsets and bustles that…

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Designer: Madeleine Vionnet (French, Chilleurs-aux-Bois 1876–1975 Paris). Date: spring/summer 1938. Culture: French. Medium: rayon. Credit Line: Gift of M...

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“If a woman smiles, her dress must also smile”—or so insisted French designer Madeleine Vionnet, the trailblazing couturier who revolutionized 20th-century women’s clothing with bias-cut gowns and intricately draped frocks. Born to a modest family in a town just outside Paris, Vionnet began her career as an 11-year-old seamstress and continued her education as a linen maid in a psychiatric hospital. After working her way through several design houses, she finally opened her own in Paris in…

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Evening dress Madeleine Vionnet (French, Chilleurs-aux-Bois 1876–1975 Paris) Date: 1917 Culture: French Medium: silk.

Madeleine Vionnet was born on 22nd June 1876 in Chilleurs-aux-Bois. When she was eleven she left school and became an apprentice for Madame Bourgueil in Aubervilliers. She’d moved to England by 189…