Frederick Worth, born in Lincolnshire, became overnight the dressmaker to the Empress Eugenie of France and the first worldwide dictator of fashion.
In the glittering and extravagant Second Empire, Worth reached the peak of international fame. He produced the crinoline as a ‘great novelty’ and then discarded it.
By 1870 he employed twelve hundred seamstresses turning out hundreds of new gowns every week. His prices made people reel with shock.
But Worth turned Parisian fashion into the universal industry it is today and imitated the technique of mass production.
Of all couturiers he was indeed the first and the greatest.
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