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fashioning the century; As the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute mounts an exhibition on Paul Poiret, today's designers reimagine the provocative world of fashion's first modernist.(Biography)
Byline: Hamish Bowles
In the years before World War I, Paul Poiret's star rose like a comet-as his contemporaries Picasso and Stravinsky were reimagining art and music with their iconoclastic brilliance, so he redesigned the twentieth-century woman and became the first fashion designer to create a seductive lifestyle world to reinforce his exceptional vision. But hubris and financial incompetence were to prove his downfall, and his star fizzled ignobly.
Poiret was born to a humble cloth merchant in Paris's hardscrabble quartier of Les Halles. As a boy he was apprenticed to an umbrella manufacturer in an attempt (woefully unsuccessful) to break him of ...
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