The cities of Nice, Cannes and St Tropez among others in the French fashion riviera are well known as places of pleasure, annually hosting many media celebrities and personalities, potentates, and billionaires.
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11 Facts About French fashion
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The rise in prominence of French fashion was linked to the creation of the fashion press in the early 1670s, which transformed the fashion industry by marketing designs to a broad public outside the French court and by popularizing notions such as the fashion "season" and changing styles.
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Louis XIV, although later hailed as a patron of French fashion, did not actually have a large role in its spread and proliferation—which was due to the French fashion prints.
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The French fashion prints were ubiquitous, but Louis XIV neither sponsored nor hindered their production and proliferation, and largely stayed out of it unless the prints of himself specifically were treasonous, satirical, or caricatures.
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French fashion hosted luxurious feasts attended by royalists, repentant Jacobins, ladies, and courtesans.
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French fashion's had a distinct type of beauty that the world came to embrace.
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In spite of the fact that so many French fashion houses closed down or moved away during the war, several new houses remained open, including Jacques Fath, Maggy Rouff, Marcel Rochas, Jeanne Lafaurie, Nina Ricci, and Madeleine Vramant.
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Post-war French fashion returned to prominence through Christian Dior's famous "New Look" in 1947: the collection contained dresses with tiny waists, majestic busts, and full skirts swelling out beneath small bodices, in a manner very similar to the style of the Belle Epoque.
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Post-war French fashion returned to prominence through Christian Dior's famous "New Look" in 1947: the collection contained dresses with tiny waists, majestic busts, and full skirts swelling out beneath small bodices, in a manner very similar to the style of the Belle Epoque.
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The French fashion houses have been traditionally situated since the 17th century in the quarter around the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore.
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