FASHION DESIGNER

Madeleine Vionnet

1876 - 1975

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Madeleine Vionnet (pronounced [ma.də.lɛn vjɔ.ne]; June 22, 1876, Loiret, France – March 2, 1975) was a French fashion designer best known for being the "pioneer of the bias cut dress". Vionnet trained in London before returning to France to establish her first fashion house in Paris in 1912. Although it was forced to close in 1914 at the outbreak of the First World War, it re-opened after the war and Vionnet became one of the leading designers of 1920s-30s Paris. Vionnet was forced to close her house again in 1939 at the start of the Second World War and she retired in 1940. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Madeleine Vionnet is the 29th most popular fashion designer (up from 33rd in 2019), the 2,165th most popular biography from France (up from 2,459th in 2019) and the 8th most popular French Fashion Designer.

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Among FASHION DESIGNERS

Among fashion designers, Madeleine Vionnet ranks 29 out of 51. Before her are Oscar de la Renta, Vera Wang, Thierry Mugler, Paul Poiret, Rose Bertin, and Gianfranco Ferré. After her are Diane von Fürstenberg, Christian Lacroix, Jil Sander, Donna Karan, Emanuel Ungaro, and Christian Louboutin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Madeleine Vionnet ranks 68. Before her are Edvard Eriksen, Hideyo Noguchi, André Tardieu, Tomáš Baťa, Prince Harald of Denmark, and Joseph Meister. After her are Senjūrō Hayashi, Eugène-Henri Gravelotte, Elmer Drew Merrill, Viktor Kaplan, Julio González, and Roman Malinovsky. Among people deceased in 1975, Madeleine Vionnet ranks 71. Before her are Robert Stolz, Michel Simon, Lyubov Orlova, Luigi Carlo Borromeo, Hiroshi Ōshima, and Leroy Anderson. After her are Avery Brundage, Hans Swarowsky, Hans Bellmer, Mina Witkojc, Kang Sheng, and Henry Calvin.

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In France

Among people born in France, Madeleine Vionnet ranks 2,165 out of 6,770. Before her are Tristan Corbière (1845), Henri Mouhot (1826), Paul Nizan (1905), André Courrèges (1923), Guillaume Amontons (1663), and Joseph Meister (1876). After her are Léon Boëllmann (1862), Peire Vidal (1140), Albéric Magnard (1865), Émile Augier (1820), Eugène-Henri Gravelotte (1876), and Stanislas de Guaita (1861).

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Among FASHION DESIGNERS In France

Among fashion designers born in France, Madeleine Vionnet ranks 8. Before her are Christian Dior (1905), Jean-Paul Gaultier (1952), Hubert de Givenchy (1927), Thierry Mugler (1948), Paul Poiret (1879), and Rose Bertin (1747). After her are Christian Lacroix (1951), Emanuel Ungaro (1933), Christian Louboutin (1964), Jean Patou (1887), and Guy Laroche (1921).

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