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America’s First Fashion Icon
The Gibson Girl was the personification of the feminine ideal as portrayed in the satirical pen and ink illustrated stories created by Charles Dana Gibson during a twenty-year period spanning the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in the United States. The Gibson Girl set what some argue was the first national standard for... »
Dior Considered Embroidery Dangerous
Christian Dior, creator of the 1947 spring/summer fashion collection that swept Europe and the Americas (coined “the New Look” after Harper’s Bazaar editor-in-chief Carmel Snow’s exclamation, “Its such a New Look!”) thought embroidery was dangerous. In Dior’s book The Little Dictionary of Fashion, (HNA Books, 1954) he described embroidery as, “One of the most beautiful... »
The First Bra
Bra history dates back as far as ancient Crete but the word brassiere didn’t appear until 1907, when it was coined in an issue of American Vogue. Prior to 1907 early bras were referred to as soutien-gorges by the French or bust improvers (or BBs) by the Edwardian British. Most of the fashion designers of... »
