Most designers reperesented at one fashion show
Eighty-nine different fashion designers from around the world were represented in Paris Fashion Week, France, 1999. The event as a whole, which averages 11 catwalk shows per day, outstrips all other international fashion showings and attracts the biggest following. Christian Dior, Vivienne Westwood and Yves Saint Laurent are just a few of the names to regularly top the exclusive fashion line-up each year.
Longest catwalk (structure)
A group of 111 fashion models walked the entire length of a 1.111km (3,645 ft) catwalk, built in the parking lot of Seacon Square shopping center, Sri Nakarin Road, Thailand, May 27-30, 1998.
Youngest haute couture designer
The French fashion designer Yves (-Mathieu) Saint-Laurent (b.1936), who became Christian Dior’s assistant at the age of 17, was named head of the House of Dior at Dior’s death in 1957. In 1962, he opened his own fashion house and in the 1970s expanded into ready-to-wear lines, household linens and fragrances.
Most expensive dress sold at auction
A flesh-coloured beaded Jean Louis gown worn by the actress Marilyn Monroe (USA) when she sang Happy Birthday to US President Kennedy on 19 May 1962, was sold at auction on 27 October 1999, for US$1,267,000 (£767,042) at Christie's, New York, USA to New York dealers Robert Schagrin and Peter Siegel of Gotta Have It! Collectibles.
Longest fashion shoes
The pointed-toe shoe, first introduced in the late 11th Century, reached excessive lengths in the 14th & 15th Centuries. These piked shoes - also known as poulaines or crakowes, were as long as 45cm 18in.
Eighty-nine different fashion designers from around the world were represented in Paris Fashion Week, France, 1999. The event as a whole, which averages 11 catwalk shows per day, outstrips all other international fashion showings and attracts the biggest following. Christian Dior, Vivienne Westwood and Yves Saint Laurent are just a few of the names to regularly top the exclusive fashion line-up each year.
Longest catwalk (structure)
A group of 111 fashion models walked the entire length of a 1.111km (3,645 ft) catwalk, built in the parking lot of Seacon Square shopping center, Sri Nakarin Road, Thailand, May 27-30, 1998.
Youngest haute couture designerThe French fashion designer Yves (-Mathieu) Saint-Laurent (b.1936), who became Christian Dior’s assistant at the age of 17, was named head of the House of Dior at Dior’s death in 1957. In 1962, he opened his own fashion house and in the 1970s expanded into ready-to-wear lines, household linens and fragrances.
Most expensive dress sold at auctionA flesh-coloured beaded Jean Louis gown worn by the actress Marilyn Monroe (USA) when she sang Happy Birthday to US President Kennedy on 19 May 1962, was sold at auction on 27 October 1999, for US$1,267,000 (£767,042) at Christie's, New York, USA to New York dealers Robert Schagrin and Peter Siegel of Gotta Have It! Collectibles.
Longest fashion shoes
The pointed-toe shoe, first introduced in the late 11th Century, reached excessive lengths in the 14th & 15th Centuries. These piked shoes - also known as poulaines or crakowes, were as long as 45cm 18in.
