Maison callot soeurs biography
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The Callot Soeurs: A Story About Early 20th Century Icons
Callot Soeurs was one of the most significant Parisian haute couture houses in the early 20th century.
Its clientele included actors like Cécile Sorel and the spouses of American businesspeople like Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, as well as royalty and nobility like Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain and Baroness Henri de Rothschild.
Their elegant creations, which encompassed daywear, lingerie, and eveningwear, took inspiration from exotic locales including Turkey, the Near East, China, and Japan, as well as the Renaissance.
The Callot sisters had their greatest fame between the years 1910 and 1920 and were renowned for their use of lace, excellent embroidery, fine craftsmanship, and distinctive color schemes.
Callot Soeurs - The Journey
Callot Soeurs first opened its doors in 1895 at 24 rue Taitbout in Paris, France's capital.
The four Callot sisters - Marie Callot Gerber, Marthe Bertrand, Regina Tennyson-Chantrell, and Jos
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Callot Model of Black Satin and Lace. Paris Spring Season 1913.
Evening Dress, Black Satin. Draped skirt, sash draped around hips and waist with end in front held with handsome green buckle, green stones and tipped with gold. Black chiffon with black lace at feet. Gold and black lace for shoulder and waist with a deep shawl drapery of black lace flouncing edged with a grupp of gold lace, also forms sleeves.
Reproductions of model gowns exhibited by Haas brothers, for the spring season of 1913 with shops in New York (303-305 Fifth Avenue) and Paris (13 Rue des Pyramides)
Source: Haas brothers, for the spring season, 1913.
The fashion house Callot Soeurs.
Founded in 1895 in the Rue Taitbout, Paris, of the kvartet sisters Marie Callot Gerber, Marthe Callot Bertrand, Regina Callot Tennyson-Chantrell and Josephine Crimont Callot. Her mother taught her the art of lace making.
The oldest of the sisters, Marie, was a trained dressmaker who had previously worked in renowned t
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In the Directoire revival, the waistline was raised in the manner of a century earlier, but with corsetting that had the vestiges of the monobosom. Perhaps even more importantly, the silhouette reflects Europe's examination of Eastern dress, the softness, raised waist, and lower bust stance suggesting "ukiyo-e" prints and other Japanese style.
Attuned to the Orientalism of the decade, Callot Soeurs reined the silhouette into a cylindrical wrap, effortless in lingerie-weight fabric. Yet, for its innovations, the work of Callot Soeurs does not stint the couture's roster of technical skills. Here, sequins vary: some are punched into a filigree pinwheel, others are hammered flat; in some instances metal is overlaid onto faceted crystal. But even this ornamentation is not entirely for the pleasure of diversity, but for the calculated