Poiret
Americannoun
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Based on the play by Jean Poiret, the show invites theatergoers to join Albin, the musical’s drag-queen hero, in belting out the anthem “I Am What I Am.”
From Los Angeles Times
Japanese textiles appeared at the 1867 Paris Exposition Universelle and 1873 Vienna World’s Fair, and as Van Godtsenhoven notes in her acute catalog essay, by 1906 the French designer Paul Poiret was presenting “his first collection to be worn without a corset, based on the loose-fitting kimono.”
From New York Times
The hits run from Poiret’s stunning 1919 opera coat, made of a single swath of uncut purple silk velvet, to a 2018 kimono printed with oversize manga characters by Comme des Garçons founder Rei Kawakubo.
From New York Times
For example, French couturier Paul Poiret created a kimono coat, while Western abstract art inspired the bold geometric patterned 'Meisen' kimonos of the early 1900s.
From Reuters
“We actually started firstly thinking of the 1920s,” when butterfly motifs were popular with artists like Erté and the French couturier Paul Poiret.
From New York Times
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