This article is about the haute couture designer. For the fashion label, see Vionnet (company).
Madeleine Vionnet
Portrait of Madeleine Vionnet by Jean Dunand.
Born
(1876-06-22)22 June 1876
Chilleurs-aux-Bois
Died
2 March 1975(1975-03-02) (aged 98)
Paris
Nationality
French
Occupation
Fashion designer
Label
Madeleine Vionnet
Madeleine Vionnet (pronounced[ma.də.lɛnvjɔ.ne]; June 22, 1876, Loiret, France – March 2, 1975) was a French fashion designer best known for being the “pioneer of the bias cut dress”,[1][2] Vionnet trained in London before returning to France to establish her first fashion house in Paris in 1912. Although it was forced to close in 1914 at the outbreak of the First World War, it re-opened after the war and Vionnet became one of the leading designers of 1920s-30s Paris. Vionnet was forced to close her house again in 1939 at the start of the Second World War and she retired in 1940.[2]
Called "perhaps the greatest geometrician among all French couturiers" in 1925 British Vogue, Vionnet is best known today for her elegant Grecian-style dresses and for popularising the bias cut within the fashion world and is credited with inspiring a number of recent designers.[2]
^ Victorian and Albert Museum
^ abc"Madeleine Vionnet – an introduction · V&A". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 2024-05-01.
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of French designer MadeleineVionnet, who specialised in bias-cut dresses meant to loosely drape and wrap around the body; Vionnet was also inspired by...
prestigious establishment. In 1926 it was ranked alongside Chanel, MadeleineVionnet and Jeanne Lanvin as a notable French fashion house. By 1931, it was...
plunging-neckline styles. It was introduced to fashion in 1932 by MadeleineVionnet when she offered an evening gown with strategically cut openings at...
Victoria and Albert Museum various cape dresses can be found. In 1933 MadeleineVionnet created a woollen jersey dress and matching cape. Coco Chanel designed...
in the 1910s-1920s, such as the dresses of designer MadeleineVionnet. Jean Patou followed Vionnet's lead, using the handkerchief hem to transition hemlines...
Coco Chanel made suntans fashionable, and in 1932, French designer MadeleineVionnet offered an exposed midriff in an evening gown. They were seen a year...
in a straight line. This is widely attributed to French designer MadeleineVionnet who rejected corsets and became famous "cutting fabric along the bias"...
influential fashion designers of the 1930s were Elsa Schiaparelli and MadeleineVionnet. Elsa Schiaparelli showed her first collection in 1929 and was immediately...
World War I and became the head seamstress for Jeanne Lanvin and MadeleineVionnet. Marcelle Chaumont created her fashion house in the late 1930s but...
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Schiaparelli, Paul Poiret, Coco Chanel, Jacques Fath, Jeanne Lanvin, MadeleineVionnet, Molly Goddard, and Simone Rocha. Ballet costume originated in the...
sisters), Paul Poiret (founded in 1903), Louise Chéruit (founded 1906), MadeleineVionnet (founded in 1912), House of Patou by Jean Patou (founded in 1919)...
Coco Chanel made suntans fashionable, and in 1932 French designer MadeleineVionnet offered an exposed midriff in an evening gown. They were seen a year...
interviewing such diverse people as André Malraux, Maria Reiche, and MadeleineVionnet. In 1972, Chatwin interviewed the 93-year-old architect and designer...
Paris Exhibition, by Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann "Little Horses" dress; by MadeleineVionnet; 1925; rayon crepe, black and gold seed beads; Museum at the Fashion...
Wayback Machine "The Louvre's Pamela Golbin Talks Chanel's Rival, MadeleineVionnet, at Wolfsonian". Daz biography for Mike Malinin Archived 2011-07-23...
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