Book review: Maker of Dreams, the Mother of them All. Madeleine Vionnet, edited by Pamela Golbin

Madeleine Vionnet built an empire by rejecting corsets and buttons in favour of the bias cut. In the third instalment of BoF’s fashion history series, we find out that, at its peak, Vionnet had 26 ateliers and employed 1,000 staff, but the couturier preferred the privacy of her study to meeting clients or running a business.

Madeleine Vionnet (1876-1975)

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Cutting the Bias: Madeleine Vionnet

Femininity as encounter of technology and sensuality in the 1920s and 1930s

The bias cut and Madeleine Vionnet

ChimHaeres Investment Holding has ambitions to become a new luxury fashion and lifestyle pole, controlling Borsalino and also acquiring majority stakes in storied car designer Zagato and Swiss hosi…

Vionnet Acquired by New Luxury Fashion, Lifestyle Pole – WWD

Incredible Couturiers – Madeleine Vionnet Part 1 “When a woman smiles, her dress should smile with her” – Madeleine Vionnet Kate Winslet in Valentino dress at Oscars 2007 It’s hard to know where the red carpet would be without a largely forgotten, hugely creative and determined entrepreneur called M

Incredible Couturiers – Madeleine Vionnet Part 1

Vionnet SHOWstudio

Designer Madeleine Vionnet (1876 – 1975) was one of Europe's greatest couturiers, famous for pioneering the revolutionary 'bias-cutting' technique

Madeleine Vionnet – an introduction · V&A

Magazine 1930s Fashion in Detail Written by Hannah Mae Webster The 1930s were undeniably an era of glamour with styles and silhouettes gradually becoming more feminine and elegant than the shapeless, boyish silhouettes that had developed during the 1920s. There was a great influence from film with stars such as Jean Ha

1930s Fashion in Detail

The Body Exposed through Vionnet’s Bias-cut Techniques Contemporaneous to Fortuny is American dancer Isadora Duncan who so impressed designer Madeleine Vionnet that her 1907 collection for the House of Doucet was modelled on Duncan’s Greek-inspired dress, bare feet and absence of corsetry.1 The newfound freedom Read More

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