Vionnet

Madeleine Vionnet (1876-1975) was a revolutionary French couturier who founded her eponymous house in 1912. She is widely celebrated for liberating women from corsetry and pioneering the bias cut, a sophisticated technique that allows fabric to cling, stretch, and drape fluidly over the body's natural contours. Her design philosophy centered on the movement and form of the female body, believing that clothes should enhance and move with the wearer, not restrict them. Vionnet famously stated, 'Wh...