SAVOIR FAIRE

Imagery and illustration play a huge a part in our lives. Essentially we are visual people and are heavily influenced by what we see. Visual...

What Savoir Faire wouldn't do for these two chairs from Paul Poiret's Martine?

As Haute Couture week comes to a close in Paris for this season I am contemplating what it used to be like. This is before we had the over t...

One cannot speak of Poiret without mention of his wife Denise. Long before any fashion history novice would proclaim that Chanel (curse her,...

In incredible stark contrast to his fashions and design aesthetic Paul Poiret commissioned the Villa Poiret from the architect Robert Mallet...

What can you say about a man who had such a sway over fashion and style that he liberated women from the corset of the 19th Century only to ...