Day 3: A Few Fashion Firsts


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A Few Fashion Firsts

• First Organized Fashion Week: 1943, PressWeek (now known as New York Fashion Week)

 Picture from 1st Fashion Week

• First Official Little Black Dress: 1926, Designed by Coco Chanel

 Coco Chanel in one of her own LBDs

• First Fashion Institute: ESMOD (l'Ecole Supérieure des Arts et techniques de la Mode), in France, 1841

  ESMOD showcase

• First Fashion Law Institute: Fordham Law

 Fordham Law Entrance

• First Department Store: Bon Marche in France in mid-nineteenth century

  Bon Marche Department Store

• First Time Women Wore Trousers: Mid-nineteenth century, to work in coal mines

  Women in pants at the coal mines

• First Screenprinting: While it began in China, it was first patented in 1907 in England by Samuel Simon

 Chinese screenprinting