The challenge: describe the role that the most creative minds have had in the history of fashion in the cultural advances of the last century without using adjectives such as revolutionary, pioneer or groundbreaking.
We are all the big names - Coco Chanel, Elsa Schiaparelli, Christian Dior, Yves Saint Laurent, Karl Lagerfeld, Miuccia Prada, Rei Kawakubo -, the first swords at the top of the design that have changed our way of seeing the world, butWhen exactly those jumps of creativity took place?How did they go over social conventions?Who sat badly at the time?
Now that Vogue's 27 editions around the world join together to address the issue of creativity, we pay tribute to the revolutionary and pioneer minds that changed the rules of the game when they were able to see the future and make it happen.These are the 13 moments that changed the history of fashion forever.
1911: Paul Poiret, the ‘King of Fashion’ and the birth of the Fashion Editorial
"More than any other designer of the twentieth century, Paul Poiret brought fashion to the status of artistic expression," says the description of the exhibition of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts regarding the radical creativity of the Parisian designer.The 2007 exhibition of the MET Institute in honor of its creations brought a very successful title: Paul Poiret, The King of Fashion [Paul Poiret, the King of Fashion].His kingdom was the most revolutionary.