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Charles Frederick Worth (13 October 1825 – 10 March 1895) was an English fashion designer who founded the House of Worth, one of the foremost fashion houses of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He is considered by many fashion historians to be the father of haute couture .
The House of Worth was a French fashion house that specialized in haute couture, ready-to-wear clothes, and perfumes. It was founded in 1858 by English designer Charles Frederick Worth. It continued to operate under his descendants until 1952 and closed in 1956. Between 2010 and 2013 there was an attempt to relaunch the House of Worth as a ...
The Electric Light dress was a masquerade gown made of gold and silver thread that was designed by Charles Frederick Worth for Alice Claypoole Vanderbilt. It was made for a masquerade ball that was held in New York City on March 26, 1883.
An evening dress and undergarments designed by Charles Frederick Worth for the American socialite and businesswoman Bertha Honore Palmer, in 1893 [Chicago History Museum/Getty Images]
Some garments that are too fragile to ever be worn again—such as a Charles Frederick Worth ballgown from 1877—will also be displayed via video animation, light projection, AI, CGI, and other ...
The princess line is popularly associated with Charles Frederick Worth who first introduced it in the early 1870s. [ 2 ] [ 7 ] It was named in honour of the famously elegant Princess Alexandra . [ 7 ] [ 8 ] By the late 1870s and early 1880s the princess dress was a popular style.
The "Tulipes Hollandaises" evening cloak, designed by Charles Frederick Worth by 1889. - Nick Knight/Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art “When an item of clothing enters our collection ...
English: Silver moiré skirt and emerald green silk velvet bodice and 12-foot train. Trimmed with silk fringe, velvet ruffles, and embroidered with clear glass crystals and silver sequins, foil and strip.