Madeleine Vionnet
The French fashion designer (1876 – 1975) is today well known for her elegant Grecian style and for introducing the bias cut to the fashion world. Her clothes were famous for accentuating the natural female form like corsets, padding, stiffening, and anything that distorted the natural curves of a woman’s body. Like Duncan, Vionnet was inspired by ancient Greek art, in which garments appear to float freely around the body rather than distort or mold its shape. As an expert couturier, she knew that textiles cut on the diagonal or bias could be draped to match the curves of a woman’s body and echo its fluidity of motion. She used this “bias cut” to promote the potential for expression and motion, integrating comfort and movement as well as form into her designs.
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