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Madame Vignon

Madame Vignon

French fashion designer

Madame Vignon also known as Madame Vignon-Chauvin (19th century), was a French fashion designer Couturier.[1]

Madame Vignon was an established fashion designer during the July Monarchy. She enjoyed a successful career, and came to have an influential position within the French fashion industry and mentioned as a member of the elite fashion designers in mid-19th-century Paris in the era of the Second Republic and Second Empire, alongside other top designers such as Madame Camille, Madame Palmyre and Madame Victorine.[2]

As one of the top seamstresses in Paris, she and her main rival[3] Madame Palmyre was engaged to deliver the 54 dresses trousseau of the new empress of France, Eugénie de Montijo, upon the wedding of Emperor Napoleon III in 1853; it was also Vignon who was given the assignment to design Eugenie´s wedding dress, which became internationally famous.[4] She did the day dresses of the empress, while Pamyre did the evening dresses.[5]

References

  1. [1]
    Penny McCracken: Women Artists and Designers in Europe Since 1800: An Annotated Bibliography (Bibliography of Women Artists & Designers in Europe Since 18)
  2. [2]
    Valerie Steele: Women of Fashion: Twentieth-century Designers, Rizzoli International, 1991
  3. [3]
    Philippe Perrot: Fashioning the Bourgeoisie: A History of Clothing in the Nineteenth Century
  4. [4]
    Granström, Alvar, Kvinnor och krinoliner: en mode- och sedeskildring från krinolinmodets tid, Carlsson, Stockholm, 1990
  5. [5]
    James Laver: Manners and Morals in the Age of Optimism, 1848-1914, 1966
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