History of Haute Couture

Haute Couture by John Galliano

Since the great age of Louis XIV and his extravagant court, France has been the yardstick for fashion.
Haute Couture is a craft that has endured and evolved for more than one hundred and fifty years.
It is a gentleman named Charles Frédéric Worth who holds the honour of being the originator of Haute Couture. In 1858 [...]

History of Mens Suits

history of mens suits

Tailoring, the cutting and sewing of cloth as we understand it today, developed gradually in Europe between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries.  The first specific reference to the word “Tailor” in the Oxford English Dictionary provides a date at around the end of the thirteenth century.
At one point the cloth was the important feature of [...]