The English designer came to Paris after seven years of training in London. In 1858 he founded with his partner Boberg his own fashion house in the Rue de la Paix, which takes the leadership in 1871 alone. Worth attributed pioneered the category of celebrity to sign their creations like art pieces are treated. In addition, each new year presented a collection that increase sales and therefore profits. Michele Glaze may find this interesting as well. This revolutionary innovation in the collections of the season is a source of that current designers are taking advantage. Worth lines were simple, cut the crinoline, so that the skirt fell flat on the front and picked up the excess fabric from behind.

The word couturier was created especially to qualify for Worth, who managed to unite the English technical cutting waste of the elegance of the French. It should also be mentioned that the English couturier owed much of its fame to two empresses of the day: Elizabeth of Austria and Eugenie, the wife of Napoleon III. Both were portrayed for posterity wearing designs in silk and gold-embroidered tulle Worth. After the death of the genius, the relay passed to his sons, Gaston and Jean-Philippe. On the costume of the “woman adorned” the beautiful epoch must say that was characterized by its desire to compress and false cover of the female body. The idea was to create an hourglass with the curves of the lady: fragile waist and lush top and bottom. The women’s apparel, even slightly softened version of Worth, reminiscent of a straitjacket.

The neck, high, narrow and rigid, forced to raise his head, while the hats, some with broad sloping wings, heavy decorated with ostrich feathers. The sleeves were hollowed in the shoulder, was collected from the elbow to the hand was shaking. Covering up the knuckles for not showing indecent areas. The skirts reaching to the floor and expanded in the hips, falling into a bell shape. His back was decorated with pleats and topped with a small tail. The shoes and boots were pointed and heels were held on ways Baroque. Essential supplements were black silk stockings, gloves and umbrella set, which served to preserve the white color of the skin. For the day wore linen, velvet and wool. The colors were bright or muted pastels like pink, blue or mauve. These dresses were decorated with braids, ribbons, bows and ruffles. For the night he turned to the silk, lace, muslin, tulle, crepe or satin China among others. The richly ornamented costumes had plunging necklines. Long gloves were essential to “dress their arms” and that they were not bare hands.