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    Marie-Louise Carven was a French fashion designer who founded the House of Carven in 1945. She was known for her designs that catered to petite women, using light fabrics like ribbon and pink gingham. As one of the first couturiers to launch a prêt-à-porter line, Carven also patented the first push-up bra. She studied interior design and architecture before opening her fashion house. Carven became known as "the smallest of great couturiers" and had a significant influence on French fashion through innovations like presenting collections abroad and incorporating foreign materials into her designs.

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    Marie-Louise Carven was a French fashion designer who founded the House of Carven in 1945. She was known for her designs that catered to petite women, using light fabrics like ribbon and pink gingham. As one of the first couturiers to launch a prêt-à-porter line, Carven also patented the first push-up bra. She studied interior design and architecture before opening her fashion house. Carven became known as "the smallest of great couturiers" and had a significant influence on French fashion through innovations like presenting collections abroad and incorporating foreign materials into her designs.

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    Marie-Louise Carven was a French fashion designer who founded the House of Carven in 1945. She was known for her designs that catered to petite women, using light fabrics like ribbon and pink gingham. As one of the first couturiers to launch a prêt-à-porter line, Carven also patented the first push-up bra. She studied interior design and architecture before opening her fashion house. Carven became known as "the smallest of great couturiers" and had a significant influence on French fashion through innovations like presenting collections abroad and incorporating foreign materials into her designs.

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    Marie-Louise Carven was a French fashion designer who founded the House of Carven in 1945. She was known for her designs that catered to petite women, using light fabrics like ribbon and pink gingham. As one of the first couturiers to launch a prêt-à-porter line, Carven also patented the first push-up bra. She studied interior design and architecture before opening her fashion house. Carven became known as "the smallest of great couturiers" and had a significant influence on French fashion through innovations like presenting collections abroad and incorporating foreign materials into her designs.

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    ABOUT FASHION DESIGNER CARAVAN

    Marie-Louise Carven was a French fashion planner who established the place
    of Carven in 1945. She was noted for her outlines for petite ladies, her
    utilization of lightweight textures, for example, ribbon and pink gingham, and
    for being one of the primary couturieres to dispatch a prt--doorman line.
    Carven was the first designer in Paris to patent a push-up bra. She was
    conceived Carmen de Tommaso on 31 August 1909 in Chtellerault, France.
    However, she unequivocally detested her given name, and when she
    established her business, she accepted the name by which she is better
    known. Carven demonstrated an enthusiasm for mold plan from a youthful
    age by making outfits for her pet cat.
    As a young lady, Carven studied interior dcor and architecture at the cole
    des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1945, at 34 years old, Carven opened her mold
    house on the Champs-lyses. The name Carven consolidated Carmen, and
    her given name, and with the last name of her auntie Josy Boyriven, who
    acquainted her with couture. The 5'1" Carven centered her line on petite
    ladies, "on the grounds that she was too short to wear the manifestations of
    the top couturiers, who just ever demonstrated their outlines on towering
    girls." Carven was formative, and not only for the house that bears her
    name. The president of the Fdration Franaise de la Couture, made a
    statement that she was a "doyenne of awesome form fashioners." Her ultrachic appeal wasn't born yesterday established in 1945 amid the brilliant
    time of high fashion in Paris, the garments of Madame Carven convey a
    legacy of magnificence, extravagance and savoir-faire. As a petite lady, she
    was known as "the littlest of huge couturiers," and her effect on French mold
    was immense she was one of the first to stage runway indicates abroad,
    motivating the presentation of outside materials into form, and was likewise
    the primary French creator to patent a push-up bra.
    Carven soon got to be known as "the littlest of enormous couturiers." The
    mark piece from her first gathering was a full evaded, green and white
    striped summer dress. Green and white stripes turned into the mark of the
    House of Carven. The material had found in the loft of a manor and was
    likely initially acquired for the late spring garbs of housemaids before World
    War I. Her initial customers included Martine Carol, Zizi Jeanmaire, Leslie
    Caron, and Edith Pilaf. Carven was an innovative advertiser. In 1946, she
    pitched the dispatch of her first scent by parachuting many example bottles
    crosswise over Paris. In 1950, Carven made an accumulation propelled by
    Gone with the Wind to concur with the film's French release. She visited
    France with the gathering; arranging design appears at motion picture
    theaters. In 1950, she got to be one of the principal couturiers to create prt-porter. Her inclination for straightforward materials, for example, pink
    gingham and broderie anglaise facilitated her move to prepared to-wear.
    Carven was one of the principal fashion houses to stage runway displays
    around the world. The originator's travel enlivened her to utilize various
    materials, for example, madras, batik, and raffia in her collections. In the
    1950s, she was one of the primary Western creators to utilize African textiles.

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