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HOURS OF FASHION STAR .. The first model in the world was not a shooting star or an it-girl. Marie Vernet a seller in Paris Fabric Home "Gagelin" in Paris, and because her husband, Charles Frederick Worth, so to speak, the haute couture "invented", had to pull the 20-year-old Vernet by the Paris salons and present his creations. Middle of the 19th Century, a wholly unglamorous job - vanity was still frowned upon. But the designs were quite Worth a sin, came from all over Europe traveled the needle to the precious materials can be tailored to the royal body. 1895 Daniel Swarovski revolutionized the jewelery and fashion world: its electric glass grinder made ​​it to the couturier Worth slightly rich to embroider robes with sparkling crystals. The beginning of a glassy age, not only for the French haute couturier. This close cooperation between the "creators of the fashion industry" and the crystal prince of Wattens in Austria pays the exhibition "Haute Couture" Tribute. In the Salle Saint Jean shows the Paris town hall unique pieces: silk satin dress from the 1950s Christian Dior feature a cream Chanel lace evening dress from the late thirties through to a real Worth robe - all embroidered with sparkling Swarovski crystals. The models were selected by Olivier Saillard, director of the Musée Galliera. About one hundred of his most precious treasures, France's fashion museum. Original drawings allow the viewer to look behind the glossy facade and explain the production process, from the first sketch to the finished dress including famous wearer. The exhibition, which until 6 July is running, so is not only for avid fashionistas a brilliant idea!

HEART CHAMBER OF CHIC .. He probably would have just sniffed the roses that are at the reception, the elegant lady would have nodded there would have driven the elevator to the second floor, as usual, to open the door to his couture salon. By now, Christian Dior would have been surprised. For the stucco area where 12 February 1947 his famous "New Look" collection debut, has been transformed into an apartment privé. Once the salon where his house models with fittings so long and went off until he had found the perfect hemline, this room was the chamber of the heart of his fashion empire. A place where the applause of the last still working on the Dior fashion shows, in the ear, to the point of exhaustion. "Completely Dior" was the order of Peter Marino. New York has the empty salon turned into an apartment, where, as it wished LVMH Chairman Bernard Arnault, receptions and soirees are held for Couturekunden or VIPs. Simple, says the designer, who designed the interiors of the Dior boutiques worldwide, had not been the task. "It was up to the marble fireplaces and appliqués nothing." But it is precisely the intimacy of the rooms have irritated him - "only the wonderful French window" The curtains, raspberry-colored silk and light gray tulle, he had filled with trims and embroidered with pearls , "as if they were ball gowns from Dior." The furniture, the 18 most Century, he found in the Parisian antiques trade. This art as Dior himself would not want to miss: a small oil painting of Bébé Bérard, a Toulouse-Lautrec, a late Renoir, Édouard Vuillard ..

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