“Before him, the couturier would go to the client and she would choose the textile, the style,” says Annick Lemoine, chief curator of the exhibition and director of the Petit Palais. “With Worth, it ...

Charles Frederick Worth is the subject of a retrospective at the Petit Palais museum, the first of its kind in France.

Worth: Inventing Haute Couture’ at Petit Palais traces the history of one of fashion’s most influential houses.

Call it a happy accident that the exhibition “Worth, Inventing Haute Couture” opens at the Petit Palais in Paris two days ...