Retrospective Exhibition of Madeleine Vionnet in Paris

ICONS: Madeleine Vionnet, the architect of fashion

“When a woman smiles, then her dress should smile too” - Madeleine Vionnet. After the drop-waist, raised hem, sequin dresses of the 1920's appeared, fashion dictated that by 1930, the look would disappear. As one trend is born another must die. A big misrepresentation of history, is that all women during the 1920's had a cloche hat,…

Cutting the Bias: Madeleine Vionnet

Madeleine Vionnet

Lesley Turner: Madeleine Vionnet and Art Deco

Style History: Madeleine Vionnet

A catalogue of Madeleine Vionnet

Madeleine Vionnet

Queen of the Bias Cut - History Madeleine Vionnet (June 22, 1876 – March 2, 1975) was a French fashion designer who was called the “Queen of the bias cut” and “the architect among dressmakers”. Today

Madeleine Vionnet — Queen of the Bias Cut - History

Nov 18, 2013 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "In Style: Celebrating Fifty Years of the Costume Institute," November 17, 1987–April 17, 1988.The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Bare Witness," April 2–August 18, 1996

ca. 1933. Madeleine Vionnett. French. Golden gown is made of silk

Madeleine Vionnet

Threads Magazine

Evening dress, Madeleine Vionnet (French, Chilleurs-aux-Bois 1876—1975 Paris), 1939, French, cotton, metallic, Metropolitan Museum of Art, C.I.52.24.2a, b

Evening dress, Madeleine Vionnet (French, Chilleurs-aux-Bois 1876

I have always loved at the wizardry of Madeleine Vionnet and recently purchased two definitive books on her drafting and pattern making techniques - Betty Kirke's book, Madeleine Vionnet, and the Japanese companion book published by the Bunka Fashion College, which remade to scale the first 28 patterns in the Betty Kirke book.  For Chloe's birthday,…

Recreating Madeleine Vionnet – pattern #14

Since the 1939 closing of her maison, Vionnet has been eclipsed in fashion histories by more colourful contemporaries Paul Poiret and Chanel.

Book review: Maker of Dreams, the Mother of them All. Madeleine