“Before him, the couturier would go to the client and she would choose the textile, the style,” says Annick Lemoine, chief ...

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

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

Today, haute couture fashion shows take place twice a ... “Worth is an authority,” French news magazine Le Monde Illustré wrote in 1868, describing him as “the absolute power in the world ...

Widely credited by historians as the “father of haute couture,” Worth was the first designer to be known by his name, and not by who wore his clothes. He gained international acclaim and ...