IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/bushst/v54y2012i1p48-66.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Madeleine Vionnet and Galeries Lafayette : The unlikely marriage of a Parisian couture house and a French department store, 1922--40

Author

Listed:
  • Florence Brachet Champsaur

Abstract

In the past, fashion history has traditionally produced monographs on talented designers emphasising the creativity of the luxury couture business and the tastes of its elite clientele. This case study, based on the unpublished records of Galeries Lafayette , offers a balanced and decompartmentalised interpretation of relationships among the players in the fashion system. Fashion designer Madeleine Vionnet never considered herself an artist and was well aware of the commercial aspects of the business, while the owner of Galeries Lafayette , Th�ophile Bader, tried to generate corporate synergy between the couture house and the department store. The examination of the partnership between Vionnet and Bader raises important questions, not only about counterfeiting but also about the transfer of creativity from designers to manufacturers.

Suggested Citation

  • Florence Brachet Champsaur, 2012. "Madeleine Vionnet and Galeries Lafayette : The unlikely marriage of a Parisian couture house and a French department store, 1922--40," Business History, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 54(1), pages 48-66, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:bushst:v:54:y:2012:i:1:p:48-66
    DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2011.617208
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00076791.2011.617208
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/00076791.2011.617208?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:bushst:v:54:y:2012:i:1:p:48-66. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/FBSH20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.