Watch: Vionnet Celebrates 100 Years with a Short Film and Well-Draped Look Back
French fashion house Vionnet celebrates its one hundredth anniversary with a major comeback and a short film that showcases its founder’s revolutionary pieces while paying tribute to legendary dancer Isadora Duncan.
Madelaine Vionnet, who introduced “the biased cut” in the early decades of last century, was a fixture of French high fashion in the 1930s with her graceful Grecian-style dresses. Vionnet rejected the use of corsets and padding in her designs and often drew inspiration from American-born Duncan who broke the then-rigid rules of dancing by performing barefoot, dressed in a white Grecian tunic.
Each of the four ballerinas in the short film, available to view below, wears a dress that illustrates Vionnet’s celebrated techniques of draping and twisting the fabric to create sensual gowns that made the eponymous fashion house a favorite of style icons like Katharine Hpburn, Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich.
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