Call it a happy accident that the exhibition “Worth, Inventing Haute Couture” opens at the Petit Palais in Paris two days ...

Diamonds became lace-like overlays or frames for gemstone couture gowns on panels in aventurine glass, a material borrowed ...

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Napoleon commissioned the sword, filled with classical motifs, after being elected as consul for life by the senate in 1802.