Costume Design Timeline

By mikellapulido

  • Coco Chanel was born.

  • Cristobal Balenciaga was born

  • Chanel became the first designer to create loose women's jerseys

  • Chanel launched the fragrance Chanel No. 5

  • Chanel launched her signature cardigan jacket

  • Hubert James Taffin de Givenchy was born

  • Givenchy lost his father/ started his love for fabric

  • Balenciaga's First Runway Show

  • Balenciaga was praised in the French press as a revolutionizing force in fashion.

  • Givenchy enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts

  • Givenchy began his career as an apprentice of Jacques Fath.

  • Givenchy established his couture house, la Maison Givenchy.

  • Balenciaga introduced the balloon jacket.

  • Givenchy became the first couturier to present a luxury ready-to-wear line

  • Balenciaga's creation of his high-waisted baby doll dress was introduced.

  • The launch of one of Givenchy's most influential designs, the "sack" silhouette

  • Givenchy launched his first perfume, L'interdit

  • Christian Louboutin was born.

  • Marc Jacobs was born.

  • Coco Chanel died.

  • Balenciaga died

  • Givenchy's launch of the first men's collection Gentleman Givenchy.

  • Jacobs graduated the High School of Art and Design.

  • Jacobs designed two collections for Sketchbook.

  • Jacobs showed his first collection bearing the Marc Jacobs label

  • Jacobs became the youngest designer ever to receive the CFDA's Perry Ellis Award for New Fashion Talent

  • Givenchy sold his business to Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessey

  • Louboutin opened a Paris shoe boutique.

  • Jacobs Jacobs introduced his secondary line, Marc by Marc Jacobs

  • Louboutin introduced his first line of handbags

  • Jacob was awarded the CFDA's prestigious Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement prize

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    Jacobs' work for the French fashion house would be staged at Les Arts Décoratifs in Paris

  • Jacobs revealed he was departing Louis Vuitton