At Paris Museum of Decorative Arts, fashion designer Paul Poiret is crowned king of the image
Before becoming the "King of Fashion" or "Le Magnifique," as he was called by his contemporaries, Poiret played with pencil and paper. Born in 1879 to a bourgeois family of drapers in the Halles district of Paris, he was sent by his father, after finishing high school, to work for an umbrella manufacturer to learn the business.
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