French fashion designers

like if it weren’t for Coco Chanel, a very famous fashion designer. One of the things Chanel is well known for is her little black dress. In the 1920s Coco Chanel changed the way the world thought about the color black when she introduced the “little black dress” to her collections, originally the color black was worn by people in mourning and it was considered extremely uncouth for people to wear

Surrealist Movement in Art’s Influence on Fashion Introduction This essay aims to analyse the key role that the surrealist movement has played on fashion and the fashion industry. Both from a historical point of view, as well as its continued impact on fashion today, as a source of inspiration for contemporary fashion designers. In this essay I will account for how the Surrealist movement in art has influenced the progress and growth of fashion worldwide and our sense of appearance. Furthermore

Famous fashion designer Michael Kors was born on August 9, 1959. When he was born his name was Karl Anderson Jr. Kors was born in Long Island, New York. He started working at a very early age a childhood model. His birth parents decided to divorce when he was very young. His mother decided to change his name when he was 5 years old. She changed his last name when she married Bill Kors. His mother told him since she was changing his last name that he could change his first name as well. He changed

For my own artist paper, I chose to study the French fashion house, Christian Dior SE. During the past seven decades, Christian Dior has transformed its brand from just another high end fashion house into a name synonymous with wealth, sophistication, power, dignity, and prestige. Christian Dior stands in a league of its own in our culture. It’s a mega brand with major influence over fashion and business. Instead of spending hours hunting down financial records and hiring practices for a smaller

in the fashion industry starting in 1947, he created the “new look” which altered the female silhouette and strayed from the wartime fabric restrictions following World War II. Dior was a man at the right place and at the right time, he brought beauty and glamour back into the dull clothing worn during and after the war and re-established Paris as the epicenter of Haute Couture. Dior exploded onto the Paris fashion scene and reintroduced femininity and focus on luxury to women 's fashion (Christian

By far the most important and iconic traits of the Flappers was their fashion. Once sufferettes won the right to vote in 1920, women quickly began to shed unnecessary evils that were placed on them by society and result in one of the biggest transformation of women in history. Restrictive corsets, long hair and heavy dresses were replaced with loose fitting dresses that hit right below the knee, eleborate jewelry, “kitten” heels, simple yet fashionable hats and short hair. Even the “ideal” body type

Christian Dior, also known as a French fashion designer. During Dior opening Chanel was 70 years old and begin facing new obstacles. Metmuseum.org states, “The designer faced challenges in this endeavor: securing finances, assembling a new staff, seeking out new fabrics, competing at age seventy against a new generation of designers (Krick, Metmuseum)”. Stated before Chanel comeback hit back within 3 seasons. She renewed her classic looks, and reworked her fashion designs

costumes and therefore they wrinkled especially on the bodice and sleeves which looked messy and drew attention away. However it can be argued that the fabric may wrinkle if the costume designer layered the bodice over a kirtle which is a historically accurate method. Another inaccuracy is the inconsistencies of the french hoods the most noticeable historical inaccuracy is the sheer veils attached to the back, there is no Tudor historical research to suggest sheer veils as they are

popular supplement for lip stain and proved relatively harmless compared to the use of boot polish as mascara.Perhaps the worst trend was the foundation concocted from a blend of margarine and chalk. The second world war had a profound impact on the fashion industries of Europe and America and consequently on the design of clothing. Chanel had already shut down the in 1939 and other couture houses now began to close their doors. Among the more than ninety houses that carried on business as usual were

thought that the fashion industry is high end and advanced because the designers that run the industry creates false and negative portrayals on people, makes models go through unreasonable lifestyle expectations, and cause social issues. The fashion industry is certainly notorious for using heavy image manipulation softwares to portray a “perfect” image. In 1987, Thomas and John Knoll invented photoshop: the world’s largest grayscale image producer to the human race. Since then, fashion has been drastically