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House of Worth

Index House of Worth

The House of Worth is a French house of high fashion that specializes in haute couture, ready-to-wear clothes, and perfumes. [1]

31 relations: Basenotes, Charles Frederick Worth, Court uniform and dress in the United Kingdom, Crinoline, Delhi Durbar, Empress Elisabeth of Austria, Entrepreneurship, Eugénie de Montijo, Fashion design, France, Haute couture, Jeanne Paquin, Jenny Lind, Karl Lagerfeld, Lady Curzon's peacock dress, Lenthéric, Lillie Langtry, London, Mary Curzon, Baroness Curzon of Kedleston, Nellie Melba, Paris, Perfume, Ready-to-wear, René Lalique, Rue de la Paix, Paris, Sarah Bernhardt, Swan & Edgar, Thierry Mugler, Tulle (netting), Wigmore Street, World's fair.

Basenotes

Basenotes is a United Kingdom-based online fragrance resource which includes a fragrance database, message boards and editorial.

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Charles Frederick Worth

Charles Frederick Worth (13 October 1825 – 10 March 1895) was an English fashion designer who founded the House of Worth, one of the foremost fashion houses of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Court uniform and dress in the United Kingdom

Court uniform and dress were required to be worn by those in attendance at the royal Court in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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Crinoline

A crinoline is a stiffened or structured petticoat designed to hold out a woman's skirt, popular at various times since the mid-19th century.

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Delhi Durbar

The Delhi Durbar (दिल्ली दरबार, دہلی دربار), meaning "Court of Delhi", was an Indian imperial style mass assembly organised by the British at Coronation Park, Delhi, India, to mark the succession of an Emperor or Empress of India.

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Empress Elisabeth of Austria

Elisabeth of Bavaria (24 December 1837 – 10 September 1898) was Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, and many other titles by marriage to Emperor Franz Joseph I. Elisabeth was born into the royal Bavarian house of Wittelsbach.

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Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is the process of designing, launching and running a new business, which is often initially a small business.

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Eugénie de Montijo

Doña María Eugenia Ignacia Augustina de Palafox y KirkPatrick, 16th Countess of Teba, 15th Marchioness of Ardales (5 May 1826 – 11 July 1920), known as Eugénie de Montijo, was the last Empress Consort of the French (1853–70) as the wife of Napoleon III, Emperor of the French.

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Fashion design

Fashion design is the art of applying design, aesthetics and natural beauty to clothing and its accessories.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Haute couture

Haute couture (French for "high sewing" or "high dressmaking" or "high fashion") is the creation of exclusive custom-fitted clothing.

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Jeanne Paquin

Jeanne Paquin (1869–1936) was a leading French fashion designer, known for her resolutely modern and innovative designs.

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Jenny Lind

Johanna Maria "Jenny" Lind (6 October 18202 November 1887) was a Swedish opera singer, often known as the "Swedish Nightingale".

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Karl Lagerfeld

Karl Otto Lagerfeld (Hamburg, 10 September 1933) is a German creative director, artist, and photographer based in Paris.

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Lady Curzon's peacock dress

Lady Curzon's peacock dress was a gown made of gold and silver thread designed by Jean-Philippe Worth for Mary Curzon, Baroness Curzon of Kedleston to celebrate the 1902 coronation of King Edward VII at the second Delhi Durbar in 1903.

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Lenthéric

Lenthéric, Inc. is a manufacturer of perfumes, cosmetics, toilet preparations,“Purely Gossip”, Wall Street Journal, 7 January 1942, pg.

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Lillie Langtry

Emilie Charlotte Langtry (née Le Breton; October 13, 1853 – February 12, 1929), known as Lillie (or Lily) Langtry and nicknamed "The Jersey Lily", was a British-American socialite, actress and producer.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Mary Curzon, Baroness Curzon of Kedleston

Mary Victoria Curzon, Baroness Curzon of Kedleston, CI (née Leiter; 27 May 187018 July 1906) was a British peeress of American background who was Vicereine of India, as the wife of Lord Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy of India.

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Nellie Melba

Dame Nellie Melba GBE (born Helen Porter Mitchell; 19 May 186123 February 1931) was an Australian operatic soprano.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Perfume

Perfume (parfum) is a mixture of fragrant essential oils or aroma compounds, fixatives and solvents, used to give the human body, animals, food, objects, and living-spaces an agreeable scent.

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Ready-to-wear

Ready-to-wear or prêt-à-porter (often abbreviated RTW; "off-the-rack" or "off-the-peg" in casual use) is the term for factory-made clothing, sold in finished condition in standardized sizes, as distinct from made to measure or bespoke clothing tailored to a particular person's frame.

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René Lalique

René Jules Lalique (6 April 1860, Ay, Marne – 1 May 1945, Paris) was a French glass designer known for his creations of glass art, perfume bottles, vases, jewellery, chandeliers, clocks and automobile hood ornaments.

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Rue de la Paix, Paris

The rue de la Paix is a fashionable shopping street in the center of Paris.

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Sarah Bernhardt

Sarah Bernhardt (22 or 23 October 1844 – 26 March 1923) was a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including La Dame Aux Camelias by Alexandre Dumas, ''fils'', Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo, Fédora and La Tosca by Victorien Sardou, and L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand.

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Swan & Edgar

Swan & Edgar Ltd was a department store, located at Piccadilly Circus on the western side between Piccadilly and Regent Street established in the early 19th century and closed in 1982.

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Thierry Mugler

Thierry Mugler (born 21 December 1948) is a French fashion designer.

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Tulle (netting)

Tulle is a lightweight, very fine, stiff netting.

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Wigmore Street

Wigmore Street is a street in the City of Westminster, in the West End of London.

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World's fair

A world's fair, world fair, world expo, universal exposition, or international exposition (sometimes expo or Expo for short) is a large international exhibition designed to showcase achievements of nations.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Worth

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