La Marchande de modes, 1769 engraving by Robert Bénard
A fashion merchant is a businessperson specialising in the production and the sale of fashion accessories, especially adornments for hairstyles and gowns. The profession emerged in the early eighteenth century and reached its height at the end of the 1700s. The women and occasional men who practised as fashion merchants played a central role in the diffusion of styles in this period.
A fashionmerchant is a businessperson specialising in the production and the sale of fashion accessories, especially adornments for hairstyles and gowns...
French fashionmerchant. She was particularly noted for her work with Queen Marie Antoinette. Bertin was the first celebrated French fashion designer...
hairstyles. In France, milliners are known as marchand(e)s de modes (fashionmerchants), rather than being specifically associated with hat-making. In Britain...
was among those fashionmerchants who used them. Pandora dolls fell out of fashion in the late 18th-century, when illustrated fashion magazines became...
high as 10,000 livres. She gave her hairdresser Le sieur Beaulard, a fashionmerchant also given in some sources mistakenly as "Baulard", 24 000 livres (e...
started off as a long-tail fashion marketplace leveraging Southeast Asia's growing internet connectivity to bring small merchants from the street markets...
Merchant Archive Ltd. is a British fashion label and the store was founded in London by Sophie Merchant in 2007. The first store was located at 320 Kilburn...
fashion design industry, followed by France, Italy, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan. Apart from professional business attire, American fashion...
(died after 1775), was a French fashionmerchant and fashion designer. He was one of the four top fashionmerchants alongside Rose Bertin, Madame Eloffe...
Hippolyte Leroy (1763–1829) was a French fashionmerchant who founded the House of Leroy, one of the foremost fashion houses of the early 19th century First...
after 1779), was a French fashionmerchant. Mademoiselle Alexandre came from a family of dressmakers. In 1740, she opened a fashion shop at the Rue de la...
Adélaïde Henriette Damoville (Madame Eloffe; 1759–1805) was a French fashionmerchant. She was a favorite milliner of Queen Marie Antoinette. She was the...
centuries, a cloth merchant was one who owned or ran a cloth (often wool) manufacturing or wholesale import or export business. A cloth merchant might additionally...
last frame before the stern being called the fashion timber(s) or fashion piece(s), so called for "fashioning" the after part of the ship. This frame is...
known as only La Duchapt (d. after 1761), was a celebrated French fashionmerchant. Active from the 1730s to 1760s, she succeeded Françoise Leclerc as...
taken by Conlin's Furniture. Other stores in the 1990s included teen fashionmerchant Deb, Payless Shoes, Juniques (gifts and collectables), and House of...
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