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LeMonde
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- LeMonde
At Paris Museum of Decorative Arts, fashion designer Paul Poiret is crowned king of the image
While fashion designer Paul Poiret (1879-1944) was best known for rejecting the corset and throwing legendary parties – including the famous "One Thousand and Second Night" – the major retrospective devoted to him by the Museum of Decorative Arts (MAD) in Paris sheds light on lesser-known aspects of his work, especially his fashion illustrations. These true blueprints of his imagination reveal a designer who understood from an early age the power of images – not only to showcase his silhouettes, but also his entire universe. 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.
L'Orient-Le Jour
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- L'Orient-Le Jour
Lebanese couturier Zuhair Murad redraws desire and breaks down the door of destiny
Amid the surprising transformations presented by the major houses and summarized by a hypnotic performance from Broadway producer Jordan Roth at the Louvre during 'Fashion Night,' Zuhair Murad took a radically opposite approach: fidelity to oneself. Instead of trying to reinvent the wheel or create digital avatars, he chose to further refine his own vocabulary. The collection, presented at the Museum of Decorative Arts, is entitled 'A Sheer Desire,' an ode to desire expressed and understood without disguise. That title appeared on the invitation, held in a black-and-white photograph between two gloved fingers adorned with a precious bracelet, in the purest Hollywood his vibrant tribute to Hollywood's golden age, the Lebanese couturier evoked the radiance of a transfigured heroine. Inspired by the 1930s and 1940s, his...
