User:Benjamin Pocheron/FashionParis

The Evolution of Fashion in Paris

Well, I see you found my sandbox, that's great. Thank you for reading me at this time. Despite the fact that Paris is one of the top - if not the most - rated cities on the Wikipedia's sphere, I decided to stick to my idea on improving the "9.9 Fashion" section of the Wikipedia's article. A priori, Fashion and Paris are two complementary terms, wouldn't you say so? Well, Paris article on Wikipedia only gives us six and a half lines on explanation about the Fashion in Paris. As a French person and in my humble (thus biased?) opinion, I think the "9.9 Fashion" section deserves more than that. That's why my first Wikipedia Project will deal with the Evolution of Fashion in Paris.

Below on this sandbox, you will find the following sections:

• 1.1 Wikipedia's page "Paris", section "9.9 Fashion" that I found, word for word, on October 16th, 2018. (#CopyAndPaste, #YesICanDoThat, #DrWright, #"Icansimplycopyandpastemostofthearticle'stextintomysandbox,sothatIcanplayaroundwithit")
• 1.2 My revision of Wikipedia's page "Paris", section "9.9 Fashion" as a my final edit for this first Wikipedia's project.
• 1.3 References, a total of three.

Again, thank you for reading me and providing your point of view along with your constructive feedback. I will for sure, return the favor. Enjoy the reading!

Wikipedia's page "Paris", section "9.9 Fashion", on October 16th, 2018.

(Note: Please be aware that the copy and past below does not include the citations that are already present in the published article. Only my citations will appear in the next section. No citation will appear in the paragraph below)

"Paris has been an international capital of high fashion since the 19th century, particularly in the domain of haute couture, clothing hand-made to order for private clients. It is home of some of the largest fashion houses in the world, including Dior and Chanel, and of many well-known fashion designers, including Karl Lagerfeld, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Christophe Josse, and Christian Lacroix. Paris Fashion Week, held in January and July in the Carrousel du Louvre and other city locations, is among the top four events of the international fashion calendar, along with the fashion weeks in Milan, London and New York. Paris is also the home of the world's largest cosmetics company, L'Oréal, and three of the five top global makers of luxury fashion accessories: Louis Vuitton, Hermés, and Cartier. Most of the major fashion designers have their showrooms along the Avenue Montaigne, between the Champs-Élysées and the Seine."

My revision of Wikipedia's page "Paris", section "9.9 Fashion".

Here we go, all the corrections in the first paragraph are in bold, the second paragraph is from me:

Paris has been considered as an international capital of high fashion since the 18th-19th century, particularly in the domain of haute couture, clothing hand-made to order for private clients, and ready-to-wear clothes. It is home of some of the largest fashion houses in the world, including Dior and Chanel, and of many well-known fashion designers, such as Karl Lagerfeld, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Christophe Josse, Christian Lacroix and the iconic Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel . Paris Fashion Week, held in January and September in the Carrousel du Louvre and other city locations, is among the top four events of the international fashion calendar, along with the fashion weeks in Milan, London and New York (aka the "Big 4", Paris included). Paris is also the home of the world's largest cosmetics company, L'Oréal, and three of the five top global makers of luxury fashion accessories: Louis Vuitton, Hermés, and Cartier. Most of the major fashion designers have their showrooms along the Avenue Montaigne, between the Champs-Élysées and the Seine.

Paris has not always been the famous international capital of fashion we know today. According to the historian John S. Major, fashion has its roots as early as in the 16th-17th century where it was concentrated in powerful small areas such as Florence, London, the region of Burgundy in France, and even in a bigger geographical area such as Spain. With the main help of trades and colonization, wealth was centralized and some populations took advantage of these resources to improve their way of life. Louis XIV understood the opportunity that was on the table. He was one the first kings to require its court to wear specific and distinct clothes. In their book "Fashion Prints in the Age of Louis XIV: Interpreting the Art of Elegance", the authors Kathryn Norberg and Sandra Rosenbaum even ask themselves if the Sun King was, in fact, the King of fashion. Years after year, multiple occasions occurred to challenge Paris, and more broadly France, in the Fashion race. In accordance with the conference of Valerie Steele, director of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, about the release of her third edition of her book "Paris Fashion", London had been called "the capital of men's fashion" in the late 18th century, while Paris remained "the capital of women fashion". While Paris was, at this time, an example of fashion that inspired countries all over the world, the French capital was disconnected from all external connections during World War II. The Nazi occupation made it difficult for Paris to communicate with other cities of fashion. Although the German failed to bring the whole fashion industry in their country, the occupation almost destroyed the fashion industry of Paris when the world realized that America (through the United States) and England (through London) could live with their own fashion codes without being ruled by Paris. However, Paris fashion seemed to had been saved from its prospective extinction during the post-war period when houses such as Dior and Chanel were established and focused their work on women fashion.