ISBN：9780500519431

书名：The House of Worth, 1858-1954: The Birth of Haute Couture

作者：Chantal Trubert-Tollu, Fran?oise Tétart-Vittu, Fabrice Olivieri, Jean-Marie Martin-Hattemberg

出版：Thames and Hudson，2017

装帧：精装，336页，486幅插图

语种：英文

开本：23.5×31cm

Arriving in Paris in 1845, at the age of twenty and with only a few francs in his pocket, Charles Frederick Worth would go on to build the most prominent, innovative and successful fashion house of the century. Worth was inspired by a love of fine art, luxurious fabrics and his vision of the female ideal. He was the first to set out to dictate new styles and silhouettes to his elite clientele – not the other way around – hosting them in his rue de la Paix salons, which included ground-breaking ‘sportswear’ and ‘maternity’ departments, as well as silk, velvet and brocade rooms, and a special salon with closed shutters and gas lighting designed to allow clients to try on ball gowns in lighting conditions precisely matched to those of the event.