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Category: Fashion on Global Spectrum

  • “Monsieur Bijoux” of Haute couture

    Supported by the family Parisian Robert Goossens started to perfect his skills in his youth. His father, a bronze caster, worked in a factory in the Marais quarter of Paris. Robert, as an apprentice, designed snuffboxes for Mellerio and engraved Cartier lighters. The young man always strived to create and be different from others. Inspired…

  • Christian Dior. Couturier of the Dream

    Dior House celebrates its 70th anniversary with an exhibition organized together with the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris. On the total surface of 3000 sq meters Christian Dior’s life and his creations are complemented by the works of couturiers who succeeded him: Yves Saint Laurent, Marc Bohan, Gianfranco Ferré, John Galliano, Raf Simons and Maria…

  • Revolutions in Fashion: A Wind of Change

    What is Fashion? What is Art? We all are used to look at art as something superior, some kind of divine expression of feelings, of reality, of the existence. We see haute couture and high fashion as sort of art, that expresses current times. Paris. The capital of fashion. Parisian fashion weeks were always the…

  • Revolutions In Fashion: Christian Dior

    Paris fashion has suffered deeply after the World War II. Its leadership in the fashion world has been challenged. Will Parisian Couture ever recover and handle the rising competition from London and New York as global cities of fashion? On February 12th, 1947, Christian Dior revealed his first Haute Couture collection in the newly founded…