Marie France Costumes Designer

Welcome to the Designer Collection from Forum Novelties. Featuring layered fabrics, rich colors and a custom zippered garment are sure to notice the difference in this premium line of costumes for children and adults. From funny to frightening, Forum has it all. Forum Novelties has been providing quality costumes and accessories for decades, always striving to meet customer needs and exceed their expectations.

The lavishly illustrated, sparkling portrait of the pioneering arbiter of style, the creator of the New Look, with an introduction by John Galliano Christian Dior, the legendary French fashion designer, caused a worldwide sensation in 1947, in a Paris still groping to recover from the devastations of wartime occupation. Reintroducing the flowing, ankle-length skirt, Dior gave women back their long-lost sense of freedom, femininity, and joie de vivre. Dior's collection with its pinched waste and... [Read More]

Irish Times: “The kind of books that adults will covet and collect as well… The language and structure is simple enough for young readers, while a biographical timeline at the end of each book offers greater historical complexity” New in the Little People, Big Dreams series, this inspiring and informative little biography follows the colourful life of iconic first lady of fashion, from her early life in an orphanage – where she is a genius with needle and thread – to her time as a caba... [Read More]

Postwar Paris seemed at last to have its lights turned on again in February 1947 when the mild-manner, forty-two-year-old Christian Dior (1905-1957) presented his first collection to a Europe still cold, dark, hungry, and threatened with Soviet invasion. As his models came down the runway - their waists cinched, their busts neatly pointed above bone-stiffened bodices, their calf-length skirts full and flaring, their heads fetchingly coiffed in "coolie" hats - they seemed to sweep the air clean o... [Read More]

The first illustrated monograph dedicated to the history of the House of Worth, the world’s pioneering haute couture labelArriving in Paris in 1845, at the age of twenty and with only a few francs in his pocket, Charles Frederick Worth would go on to build the most prominent, innovative, and successful fashion house of the century. He was inspired by a love of fine art, luxurious fabrics, and his vision of the female ideal, and was the first to set out to dictate new styles and silhouettes to ... [Read More]

Christian Dior called Cristobal Balenciaga "the master of us all." The priest-like Balenciaga, whose private life remained a total mystery until the day he died, created day dresses of deceiving simplicity and evening gowns of staggering extravagance, and for them he was paid the highest prices in the couture world. His faithful clients were the great fashion plates of the postwar years: the Duchess of Windsor, Gloria Guinness, Pauline de Rothschild, and Mona Bismarck, among others.Cristobal Bal... [Read More]