Vintage Fashion Designer: Madeleine Vionnet

Madeleine Vionnet was a French fashion designer nicknamed the "queen of the bias cut". Her designs were very much inspired by Grecian draping and influenced by the dancer Isadora Duncan. She dominated the haute couture world in the 1930s and her designs were worn by the likes of Greta Garbo, Katharine Hepburn, and Marlene Dietrich.


A portrait of Madeleine Vionnet | source

Her process for designing was a lengthy one often draping and constructing miniature dresses on small wooden dolls. Madeleine was also known to have helped revolutionize fashion by introducing ready to wear mass produced clothing.

Get ready to "Ooh and Ahh" ladies.






And one last photo of Madeleine working in her French atelier in the 1930s...


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