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Name: Paul Poiret
Birth Date: April 20, 1879
Death Date: April 30, 1944
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Place of Death: Paris, France
Nationality: French
Gender: Male
Occupations: fashion designer

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Biography of Paul Poiret
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Paul Poiret (1879-1944) was an influential French fashion designer during the early twentieth century. He led a fashion renaissance that introduced free-flowing dresses, replaced tight corsets with brassieres, and added a new standard of artistic value...


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Paul Poiret (20 April 1879, Paris, France - 30 April 1944, Paris) was a French fashion designer. His contributions to twentieth-century fashion have been likened to Picasso's contributions to twentieth-century...


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Paul Poiret
05/01/2007: 144 words, approx. 1 pages
Paul Poiret METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART May 9-August 5 Curated by Andrew Bolton and Harold Koda To understand the radicality of Paul Poiret's designs, you have to compare his "look" to the starchy, buxom. Edwardian silhouette that preceded it. True,...
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Poiret's 1002 nights: couturier Paul Poiret both inspired a revolution in the presentation of clothes and wrote a new language of fashion for modernism, as Sanda Miller explains.(Poiret: King of Fashion)(Book review)
07/01/2007: 1,446 words, approx. 5 pages
'Paul Poiret: King of Fashion', Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 9 May-5 August, +1 212 535 7710. Catalogue by Harold Koda, Andrew Bolton, et al., ISBN 973791361321 (paper), $65 (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications). 'A woman's clothes...
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Paris couturiers court Hollywood stars
7/5/2007: 580 words, approx. 2 pages
Paris designers looked to Hollywood on Wednesday with elaborate creations that will vie for "best dressed" on the red carpet.Cate Blanchett lit up the front row at Giorgio Armani's show, held on the third day of the autumn-winter haute couture collections. And French actress Catherine...
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Gaultier eyes red carpet with couture
7/4/2007: 458 words, approx. 2 pages
Paris designers looked to Hollywood on Wednesday with haute couture collections that could vie for "best dressed" on the red carpet.French actress Catherine Deneuve and Spanish director Pedro Almodovar gathered at Jean Paul Gaultier's headquarters for his show on the second-to-last day of the autumn-winter...
 


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