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 Who has never heard of Coco Channel, Yves Saint Laurent, or Christian Dior?

These big names are those that sometimes make us dream, sometimes salivate, and sometimes grow wings. Because yes, the world of fashion is a rich, dense world, whose prospects are not limited to a garment that we wear. No, this is indeed a complete universe, filled with dreams, which does not only appeal to the practical side of a garment.

Fashion designers are therefore those figures who embody this fashion, halfway between practicality and escape. And why not a luxury? Figures, yes, but also icons, whether they are our contemporaries or not. It is therefore easy to understand, fashion is a world where those who hide behind the big houses are also very important in the construction of the image of the latter!

The name of Balenciaga is not familiar to you?

However, all these great couturiers, and fashion designers, have marked the history of their discipline by the originality of their artistic creations, their audacity, by upsetting established codes, and by launching completely innovative clothing styles.

Superprof traces the life of the great personalities who marked 20th-century haute couture, without forgetting the "trendsetters" to follow on Instagram and to refine your online sewing lessons. Something to refine your fashion culture in the most beautiful way. French haute couture, fashion shows, costumes, and top designers, here is our selection!

Iconic fashion designers

In this great fashion that is fashion, women have served as figureheads and even icons! Sometimes strong, sometimes inspiring, sometimes brilliant women, they have, each in their own way, contributed to making houses famous, and pieces in particular essential.

Women, yes, but also and above all creators, inspirations, and craftsmen, whose talent has made it possible for certain houses to shine all over the world! And here is our selection of the most notable, even the most striking!

Coco Chanel

Her real name, Gabrielle Chanel, known as "Coco Chanel", is one of the greatest creators in the history of fashion, a milliner and a great French seamstress, made famous for her haute couture creations and her perfumes (who does not know the Chanel No. 5?).

Born in 1883 in Saumur, and died in 1971 at the Hotel Ritz in Paris, she embodied this French elegance so recognized throughout the world. Evidenced by its creations, which occupy a prominent place in the collective spirit of fashion.

Her first artistic work concerns original hats that she wears very low on the forehead and which are a certain success. Thereafter, it will contribute to forging an identity for the woman and to the French, which will be exported to both sides of the world.

It was in 1915, in the city of Biarritz, that she opened her first fashion house. She began to be known for her work on skirts, which she shortened then on the waist, which she tended to remove in her creations and in her sewing lessons. Codes change, and fashion too!

In 1918, just after the end of the war, she was at the head of a very important fashion house, which employed more than 300 seamstresses. Chanel is gradually becoming the empire that we will know later, and it happens that at the head of this empire, we find our national Coco Chanel!

In 1921, she opened her second workshop in rue Cambon, near Place Vendôme and in 1926, her "little black dress" was a real success. Coco is also the first fashion designer to launch her line of perfumes. A novelty that reinforces her position as a creative genius.

As a site on the history of the famous French fashion designer states:

"This woman of character revolutionized the fashion of the 1920s by reinventing the female wardrobe: dresses without corsets, hats without flowers, quilted bags, neutral tones (black, white, and beige, the colors of the abbey in which this orphan past his teenage years) and clean lines. »

Subsequently, after her death at the Hôtel Ritz where she lived, we will find her figure in a number of creations and formats, starting with the famous film by Anne Fontaine, Coco Avant Chanel, in which Audrey Tautou portrays the famous creative.

For its part, at 31, rue Cambon, the boutique consists of an art deco staircase, which leads directly to Coco Chanel's apartment. It is possible to visit it only when one is part of the press, where one is a loyal customer. Enough to make you want to go to fashion shows!

Mary Quant

Another great seamstress, and this time, a British seamstress! Born in 1934 in

Blackheath, Mary Quant is a great lady of fashion, on whom we could count.

Ladies, you have to remember this name because you owe your mini-skirts to this lady! And yes, we sometimes tend to forget it, but the pieces we wear did not create themselves: someone had to do it for us!

In 1955, Mary Quant and her husband opened their first second-hand shop, which also became a place for artistic encounters of all kinds. The first manager of this clothing store on Kings Road in London, the young woman then decided to create her own line of clothing.

She invented the mini-skirt in the 1960s even though it had also been proposed in the creations of André Courrèges. But since 1958, his creations have become shorter and shorter, until reaching this reference that we have and that we all know: the mini skirt.

Originally intended for women who would like to run after a bus, the miniskirt has become a reference, created on the designer's favorite car model: the Mini 1000.

She will be the symbol of fashion in the English capital for a long time before turning to the end of her career in home accessories and make-up. Today Mary Quant has resigned from her duties, but she continues to remain, in the collective imagination, a woman

of business and creation, inspiring and talented.

So talented that Laurent Voulzy even dedicated a song to her. This is to say the power of great designers!