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Category: Fashion on Global Spectrum

  • 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…

  • Revolutions In Fashion: Coco Chanel

    This is a story of a little girl from an orphanage, who was about to change the world of fashion. This is also a story of a strong woman who had to rely on rich men’s help, but was able to do so without losing her pride. This also a story of a great feminist…

  • Revolutions In Fashion: Marie Antoinette

    Spring 1770, the young Marie Antoinette, born 14 years earlier as Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna, is on her way from Vienna to Versailles after spending countless hours with dressmakers from Paris. Her marriage with French dauphine is supposed to seal the Franco-Austrian alliance. And it is time for Marie Antoinette to step out of her…

  • Jean Paul Gaultier. L`enfant terrible de la mode

    In spring of 1952 (April 24) in the Parisian suburb of Arqueil in a completely normal family was born a perfectly normal boy. His parents did not belong to an aristocratic class: his father was an accountant and his mother – a salesperson. Jean Paul spent a lot of time with his grandmother, who later…