TY  - BOOK
AU  - Trubert-Tollu,Chantal
AU  - Tétart-Vittu,Françoise
AU  - Martin-Hattemberg,Jean-Marie
AU  - Olivieri,Fabrice
AU  - Lacroix,Christian
TI  - The house of worth 1858-1954: the birth of haute couture 
SN  - 9780500519431
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London
PB  - Thames & Hudson
KW  - Worth, Charles Frédéric,
KW  - House of Worth (Firm)
KW  - History
KW  - Fashion design
KW  - France
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - England
KW  - Fashion designers
KW  - Biography
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-325) and index
N2  - Charles Frederick Worth would go on to build the most prominent, innovative, and successful fashion house of the century. He was inspired by a love of fine art, luxurious fabrics, and his vision of the female ideal, and was the first to set out to dictate new styles and silhouettes to his elite clientele? Not the other way around. He hosted them in his rue de la Paix salons, which included groundbreaking sportswear and maternity departments as well as silk, velvet, and brocade rooms, and a special salon with closed shutters and gas lighting designed to allow clients to try on ball gowns in lighting conditions precisely matched to those of the event at which they would be worn
ER  -