French Fashion Culture

French fashion culture are well known all over the world especially on the world of fashion. From time to time, fashion industry is becoming a recognized force in the sponsorship of French culture, which recently in the domain of world fashion. French fashion culture are became dominant since the seventeenth century. It starts when the headquarters for fashion houses have been traditionally situated in the quarter around the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré. Until the year 1980's, the Montaigne avenue is on the extent which overtaken the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré. The fashion industry was turn into high fashion accompanied with the accessories. The France fashion and style dates largely to the reign of Louis XIV. Through the reign of Louis XIV, the luxury goods industries in France came increasingly under royal control. The French royal court became the arbiter of taste and style in Europe. This is the beginning and rise in prominence of French fashion. It was linked also into the creation of the fashion press in the early 1670s. This is the period of transformation of the fashion industry by marketing designs to a broad public outside the French court. And this is the starts of popularizing the French culture fashion through introducing fashion seasons like fall-winter, autumn, etc. Through the fashion seasons, more designer clothes are equipped in changing styles of fashion but still in the depicts French fashions.

The emerging of public-private partnership has brought cultural spending an attractive investment for corporations that deals on luxury products in fashion lines. French mega-firms in fashion industry have emerged in a decade of booming growth and takeovers. Through the takeovers of the French designers and fashion corporations, the French fashion is in continue spreading its designs and styles all over the world. The highest profile of French fashion was indicate the commitment of Louis Vuitton company or LVMH. LVMH is the world's largest luxury good purveyor that maintains the dominance of French fashion in the world of fashion. In the world of fashion, not only LVMH had the power of contributing luxury fashion goods in fashion trends. There are lot of well-known and respective French designers that work on their own version and styles. They have their own identity of fashion styles and depict it in their designer clothes products. Some of there are Charles Frederick Worth, Coco Chanel, Lucien Lelong, Elsa Schiaparelli, Cristóbal Balenciaga, Christian Dior, and Yves Saint Laurent. These are the prominent personalities behind the distribution and contribution of French fashion all over the world. Paris has the great contribution also because it serves as the Fashion headquarters of those respectable designers. Because of that, Paris is known as the fashion capital in the world. Through the contributions of French fashion culture in the line of designer clothes, some of the foreign designer clothes are enriching the French fashion trends by means of introducing new style and designs which blends on the foreign fashion and French fashion. Through blending of those styles and designs, a new fashion trends are made and it was ready to adopt by all fashionistas all over the world including the French speaking countries.