Finding a Voice Through Fashion: Charles Frederick Worth

Hybrid Event

History Council Member Nicole Bracken from Embellish Butterick Couture will be presenting a lecture that details the life and work of Fashion Designer Charles Frederick Worth, the designer who dominated Parisian fashion in the latter half of the nineteenth century!

In addition to gaining a thorough knowledge of fabrics and the business of supplying dressmakers during this time, he also visited the National Gallery and other collections to study historic portraits. Elements of the sitters’ dresses in these paintings would later provide inspiration for Worth’s own designs, for both fashionable ensembles and masquerade costumes. 

Come along for this exciting talk that will also uncover the story of Charles Fredrick Worth fashion design house “House of Worth”!