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Clothing Companies of France: Charvet Place Vendôme, Chanel, Hermès, Louis Vuitton, Balenciaga, Lacoste, Roland Mouret, Yves Saint Laurent
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-05-30.
ISBN 9781157459910
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Charvet Place Vendôme, Chanel, Hermès, Louis Vuitton, Balenciaga, Lacoste, Roland Mouret, Yves Saint Laurent, Dior Homme, Skis Rossignol, Quechua, Damart, Givenchy, le Coq Sportif, Decathlon Group, Celine, Salomon Group, Longchamp, Façonnable, House of Worth, Aigle, A.p.c., Gunhild, Airness, Montagut, Balmain, Oxbow, Alain Figaret, M.dia, Sixpack France, Chantelle, Gerbe. Excerpt: ) Charvet, pronounced , is a French high-end bespoke and ready-to-wear clothing company whose flagship store is located at 28 Place Vendôme in Paris. It produces and sells shirts, neckties, blouses, pajamas and suits. The world's first ever shirt shop, Charvet was founded in 1838. Since the 19th century, Charvet has been a specialized supplier of bespoke shirts and haberdashery to kings, princes and heads of state. It has acquired an international reputation for its high quality of products, its level of service and its wide range of designs and colors. The company is also renowned for its ties and charvet has become a generic name for a certain type of silk fabric used for ties. Due to its unique longevity, the history of the brand is intertwined with the history of modern fashion. Famous customers have qualified their patronage as a personal attribute and writers have used the brand's values as a way to express their characters' identity. Fashion plate (Le Follet, 1839) showing Charvet shirts, one of them with a turned down collarThe store was founded in 1838 by Christofle Charvet (18061870). His father Jean-Pierre had been the "keeper of the wardrobe" for Napoleon Bonaparte. It was the first shirtmaking store in Paris. Previously, shirts were generally made by linen keepers with fabric provided by the customer, but Charvet was the first store where clients we... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=15654175
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