FASHION DESIGNER

Paul Poiret

1879 - 1944

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Paul Poiret (20 April 1879 – 30 April 1944, Paris, France) was a French fashion designer, a master couturier during the first two decades of the 20th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Poiret has received more than 494,690 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Paul Poiret is the 22nd most popular fashion designer, the 1,462nd most popular biography from France (up from 1,479th in 2019) and the 5th most popular French Fashion Designer.

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Among FASHION DESIGNERS

Among fashion designers, Paul Poiret ranks 22 out of 51Before him are Roberto Cavalli, Mary Quant, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Yohji Yamamoto, Tom Ford, and Oscar de la Renta. After him are Rose Bertin, John Galliano, Thierry Mugler, Gianfranco Ferré, Donna Karan, and Charles Frederick Worth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Paul Poiret ranks 48Before him are Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, Frederick Griffith, Adolf Strauss, Wanda Landowska, Boris Savinkov, and Marius Jacob. After him are Ethel Barrymore, Max Schreck, Huda Sha'arawi, Bedřich Hrozný, Edward Steichen, and Kartini. Among people deceased in 1944, Paul Poiret ranks 73Before him are Ida Tarbell, Leo Baekeland, Günther Korten, Cécile Chaminade, Yvette Guilbert, and Missak Manouchian. After him are Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg, Friedrich Dollmann, Paul Cornu, Milan Hodža, Jakob von Uexküll, and James McKeen Cattell.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul Poiret ranks 1,462 out of 6,770Before him are Alain Giresse (1952), Charles-Michel de l'Épée (1712), Joan, Countess of Flanders (1200), Paul Scarron (1610), Theobald II, Count of Champagne (1093), and Louise Marie Thérèse of Artois (1819). After him are Maria Francisca of Savoy (1646), Étienne-Louis Malus (1775), Antoine Augustin Cournot (1801), Jean Clouet (1480), James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick (1670), and Margaret of France, Queen of England and Hungary (1158).

Among FASHION DESIGNERS In France

Among fashion designers born in France, Paul Poiret ranks 5Before him are Coco Chanel (1883), Christian Dior (1905), Hubert de Givenchy (1927), and Jean-Paul Gaultier (1952). After him are Rose Bertin (1747), Thierry Mugler (1948), Christian Lacroix (1951), Emanuel Ungaro (1933), Madeleine Vionnet (1876), Christian Louboutin (1964), and Jean Patou (1887).