The museum, Les Arts Décoratifs in Paris, is currently celebrating Madeleine Vionnet with a large exhibition. The fashion designer donated 200 dresses, 750 dress patterns and 75 photo albums to the museum in 1952. Selected Avantgarde models from the period 1912-1939 have been carefully restored and are now finally exhibited.
Madeleine Vionnet was the founder of the bias-cutting technique and her career was characterized by her quest for freeing the female body with her refined draped dresses inspired by form and function, anatomy, architecture, contemporary and classical art.
She was an innovative and progressive fashion designer who still inspires contemporary designers like Issey Miyake, Yamamoto, Alaia and John Galliano for Dior.
You can read the whole fascinated story in this new book by Pamela Golbin, which can be purchased at Amazon.
You can read the whole fascinated story in this new book by Pamela Golbin, which can be purchased at Amazon.
The exhibition lasts until 31 January 2010.
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