Madame Vignon also known as Madame Vignon-Chauvin (19th century), was a French fashion designer Couturier.[1]
Madame Vignon was an established fashion designer during the July Monarchy. She enjoyed a successful career, and came to have an influential position within the French fashion industry and mentioned as a member of the elite fashion designers in mid-19th-century Paris in the era of the Second Republic and Second Empire, alongside other top designers such as Madame Camille, Madame Palmyre and Madame Victorine.[2]
As one of the top seamstresses in Paris, she and her main rival[3] Madame Palmyre was engaged to deliver the 54 dresses trousseau of the new empress of France, Eugénie de Montijo, upon the wedding of Emperor Napoleon III in 1853; it was also Vignon who was given the assignment to design Eugenie´s wedding dress, which became internationally famous.[4] She did the day dresses of the empress, while Palmyre did the evening dresses.[5]
- ^ Penny McCracken: Women Artists and Designers in Europe Since 1800: An Annotated Bibliography (Bibliography of Women Artists & Designers in Europe Since 18)
- ^ Valerie Steele: Women of Fashion: Twentieth-century Designers, Rizzoli International, 1991
- ^ Philippe Perrot: Fashioning the Bourgeoisie: A History of Clothing in the Nineteenth Century
- ^ Granström, Alvar, Kvinnor och krinoliner: en mode- och sedeskildring från krinolinmodets tid, Carlsson, Stockholm, 1990
- ^ James Laver: Manners and Morals in the Age of Optimism, 1848-1914, 1966