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Believe it or not, this is the man who invented Parisian haute couture. Even more incredibly, he was English – Charles Worth, a draper from Lincolnshire, opened a dress shop in the posh rue de la Paix in 1858 and began the reign of fashion terror that we call haute couture. Instead of making clothes to order, as was the custom, he designed gowns and informed fashionable ladies that that was what they would wear next season. And unlike a certain more recent British designer in Paris, Worth stayed sober and kept his political opinions to himself.
He was a raging success, so much so that Parisian fashion schools actually acknowledge their debt to this Lincolnshire immigrant rather than claiming that haute couture is French.
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