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Madeleine Vionnet

Madeleine Vionnet

Couture — historical

, France

The story

By simply turning the fabric forty-five degrees, she taught cloth to move with the body, liberating women from the corset a decade before Chanel got the credit. Invented the bias cut, draping fabric diagonally so it flowed and clung to the body without corsetry.

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