Worth : Inventer la haute couture. Occident although he had an excellent

although he had an excellent sense of observation

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This new exhibition retraces the history of the 1720 plague through the daily lives of the people of Marseille

he brilliantly delivers an in-depth rereading of the history of Western painting

Worth : Inventer la haute couture. Occident although he had an excellentDedicated to the couturier Charles Frederick Worth (1825 1895) and to the house that he founded, this work traces its chronology on four generations, from 1858 to 1954. A vast fresco which unfolds through a rich iconography and of scientific texts describing a major turning point in history of late 19th and early 20th century fashion: the invention of haute couture. From the Second Empire to the Roaring Twenties, a page history is being written: the