'Théâtre des Champs-Élysées', 1913, French, a,c-e) silk, rhinestones; b) silk; f, g) silk, leather, Poiret's radical approach to dressmaking was inseparable from his ideas of the body, which found their ultimate expression in his advocacy of an uncorseted figure. While Poiret was not the only designer to promote an integrated and intelligible corporeality, he was among the first to link it to the naturalism of Greco-Roman dress
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