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Jean Patou (pronounced [ʒɑ̃ pa.tu]; 27 September 1887 – 8 March 1936) was a French fashion designer, and founder of the Jean Patou brand. Early life [ edit ]
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Born in Paris in 1887 into a family of tanners based in Picardy, Jean-Alexandre Patou, renamed Jean Patou, first joined the army before turning his eye to fashion. His father was a tanner of chamois for luxury leather goods and his mother, a housewife.
Born in Paris in 1880, Jean Patou entered the world of fashion from a comfortably well-off bourgeois family, respectably engaged in trade, making among other things, high-level quality chamois leather for the fashion world.
Jean Patou (1887-1936), a designer, creator and hedonist was born in Normandy, France. The family business helped him reveal his talents as since 1907 he started working with his uncle in the furs business. In 1912 he moves to Paris and opens a small fashion-dressmaking atelier Maison Parry.
Mar 21, 2014 · Jean Patou was one of the great innovators of the interwar years. He is credited with leading the seismic shift from the short and boxy 1920s chemise to the long and languorous gowns of the 1930s. Like his rivals, Chanel and Lucien Lelong, Patou was a master stylist who successfully pioneered sportif clothing for women.
Apr 2, 2012 · Though best known for his landmark woman's fragrance, Joy (which in 1929 was marketed as the "most costly perfume in the world"), Jean Patou's far-reaching influence can be found in...
Jean Patou (1880–1936) was born in Normandy in northwestern France in 1880. His father was a prosperous tanner who dyed the very finest leathers for bookbinding, and his uncle, with whom he went to work in 1907, sold furs. In 1910 Patou opened a dressmaking and fur establishment that foundered, reportedly.
In the mid-1920s, Jean Patou was in constant demand by Parisian couture clients and the American leisure class that had infiltrated Parisian consumer culture after World War I. He was credited with pioneering the shortened skirt for both daytime and early evening, and was consistently celebrated alongside Chanel for innovations in sportswear ...
célèbre le corps féminin, Jean Patou [1919–1929]”). Polle’s and Zanon’s work represents the first new insights into Patou’s life and career since Meredith
