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Charles Frederick Worth founded the couture fashion house House of Worth in the 1850s. Worth worked for Swan & Edgar, an iconic department store in the heart of London Soho that specialized in fine wool and silk items. He worked for Swan & Edgar for six years before he moved to Paris where he worked as a draper for Maison Gagelin for ten years. He had the chance to shine when he came up with ready-made and ready-to-choose muslin cloth samples and when his designs were displayed in-store. Marie Vernet, the women who modeled the clothes in store, was the woman Worth eventually married in 1851. Worth went on to design clothes and started the trend of sewing brand labels into the garments. He organized shows in the...
This hub pairs Worth's brand profile with the current 16 Worth fragrances we track, including price coverage and the note families that appear most often across the collection.
