Charles FrederickWorth (13 October 1825 – 10 March 1895) was an English fashion designer who founded the House of Worth, one of the foremost fashion houses of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
With his talent for design and promotion, Charles FrederickWorth built his design house into a huge business during the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
Leslie Camhi writes about a blockbuster show in Paris that celebrates the designer whose over-the-top aesthetic embodied his money-mad era—and speaks to our own.