Poiret designed a wired lampshade tunics as costumes for Jean Richepin’s play, “Le Minaret.” It became à la mode despite the fact that, as Vogue ackno…

The news wires attributed the new mode in fashion to the Russian ballet and to one Paul Poiret, “a much advertised and rather remarkable young man, fr…

Poiret added Rosine, a fragrance business and Martine, a decorative arts workshop and school, to his empire. Both are named after his daughters. Marti…

Traveled to London at the behest of Margot Asquith, wife of the prime minister where the designer presented his collection at a tea at 10 Downing Stre…

The “Paul Poiret” exhibition in Paris provided the occasion to trace the designer’s life in fashion using Vogue as a primary source. Paul Poiret born …

Is it poetic justice, fate, or happenstance that explains the concurrence of the Worth and Poiret exhibitions? Poiret, who once worked for Worth, reje…

Poiret’s end goal wasn’t necessarily to do things couturiers had never done before; rather his creativity was as expansive as his personality was big….

We’re hot with anticipation for the debut of Glenn Martens at Maison Margiela, as well as Demna’s swansong collection for Balenciaga. But what makes t…

Photography here becomes more than medium—it becomes method, protest, catharsis. The self-portrait, traditionally a tool of self-fashioning, is transf…

This work is also a testament to the fact that rape is not an individual tragedy—it is a structural, global crisis. Survivors in this project come fro…