Posts Tagged ‘Paul Poiret’

I love this. I can imagine wearing it with one of Paul Poiret’s harem-style ensembles in 1916 or some such year…

These are snaps of what the guests wore to the opening of the Poiret: King of Fashion exhibition at the Met in New York way back in 2007. I thought I’d post a few since a lot of the celebs did a pretty good job of paying tribute to Paul Poiret.

I’ve posted a few things related to Paul Poiret, but haven’t ever actually posted any images of his work. So here we have a little Poiret inspiration. Click on the thumbnail to view the larger image.

From Wikipedia: “Paul Poiret (20 April 1879  – 30 April 1944) was a French fashion designer. His contributions to twentieth-century fashion have been likened to Picasso’s contributions to twentieth-century art. Though perhaps best known for freeing women from corsets and for his startling inventions including hobble skirts, “harem” pantaloons, and “lampshade” tunics, Poiret’s major contribution to fashion was his development of an approach to dressmaking centered on draping, a radical departure from the tailoring and pattern-making of the past. The structural simplicity of his clothing represented a “pivotal moment in the emergence of modernism” generally, and “effectively established the paradigm of modern fashion, irrevocably changing the direction of costume history.”