Charles Fredrick Worth, was an English-born designer, who is often referred to as 'The Father of Haute Couture'.
Born In Lincolnshire in 1825, Worth started off working in a very profitable drapery company, in London. He moved to Paris in 1845 and took up work with Maison Gagelin, a well-known parisian drapery, that specialized in fabrics and dress accessories. The Maison Gagelin employed women to work in the house as models for their wares, one of these models caught the eye of Mr. Worth, her name was Marie Vernet and within a few years they would be married.
During their time working together at the Maison Gagelin, Worth began designing dresses for Marie. The dresses she wore received a lot of attention and Worth asked his bosses if he could sell his dresses with in the shop. They were hesitant, so he joined forces with a wealthy swedish gentleman and together they opened Worth and Bobergh in 1858.
The house did extremely well and was soon the go to place for many rich and titled women, as well as several famous actresses. His clothing was so popular, he had the wealthy women from america traveling all the way to Paris to be dressed by him. At one stage he was so busy he had to turn away customers, something that was almost unheard of, in his day.
Due to the Franco Prussian War, the house shut and when it reopened in 1871, Worth did it on his own, renaming the business, House of Worth. He was the first designer to use branded labels in his clothing, as well as the first designer to show his full collections on models, essentially inventing the catwalk show. He was also the first to catalogue his collection and allow his clients to then go through them, picking, color and fabric.
He was best known for his use of lavish fabrics and trimmings and was a huge fan of the newly invented sewing machine. While other designers of the time were shunning modern technology, he embraced it, and only finished the finer details by hand. He was most popular for his crinoline ball gowns and the walking skirt, a skirt cut shorter, that allowed ladies to walk with out their dresses dragging in the mud. (no fear of that happening these days...)
Although his popularity had started to wane by the time of his death in 1895, his sons took over the business and it was still profitable, until the turn of the century which saw designers like Poiret, discard of corsets and crinolines, in favor of loose unstructured styles. They eventually closed the business in 1956.
In 2010, the House of Worth, was taken over by Martin McCarthy, (a fashion entrepreneur, who has worked with houses such as Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Cerruti and Celine) and Dilesh Mehta, the CEO of Shannel Enterprises, a 250 million dollar perfume and fashion empire. Together they hired designer Giovanni Bedin, who has worked with both Lagerfeld and Thierry Mugler to relaunch the label.
They recently presented their first ready to wear collection as well as couture for S/S 2011. Scarlett Johansson, Kylie Minogue and Charlize Theron are already fans and both shows received favorable criticism. I predict we are going to be seeing a lot more from this label in the next few years and I for one, am very excited.
The first time you go to court, you'll find out whether or not your lender has succeeded in taking out a house repossession notice, or house repossession order, on your home. Luckily, courts rarely grant repossession orders on the first hearing however it does happen especially if you are not in court. The law usually feels that granting a 메리트카지노 home repossession order straight off is too harsh. So it is usually used as a last resort, in cases where there's no chance the borrower can put things right.
Home repossession notice: Repossession Order or Suspended Order?
In most cases the judge will grant a suspended order.
If you've been given a suspended repossession order, you can stay in your house but you must abide by the court's ruling. This tends to involve repaying your arrears on time, in full, over an agreed timescale;
If the court feels you are unlikely to repay your arrears in a reasonable amount of time, then a home repossession notice is the most likely outcome. In this case the court will give you a date on which, by law, you have to leave the property;
Either way, the sooner you take action the better chance you have of avoiding actual house repossession. The process below gives you plenty of opportunities to put things right:
1) Home Repossession notice Payment Reminder
Repossessions are bad publicity, and your bank or financial lender will be keen to continue a good relationship with you. After all, you're a customer. Most mortgage lenders will contact you via their internal arrears collection unit when they notice a missed payment. If not after one missed payment, they'll be in touch after two.
2) Solicitor's Letter
If you don't repay your arrears, or ignore their attempts to contact you, they'll get in touch via their solicitor. The letter will demand full, immediate payment and it'll warn you about the risk of repossession.
3) Proceedings for Home Repossession
The solicitor will issue property repossession notice proceedings with the County Court. The Court gets details of your arrears then sets a hearing date.
4) Court Order
o If there's information outstanding or you don't turn up, the hearing is adjourned and the court will set a new date.
o If you have repaid your arrears completely before the hearing, it'll be dismissed or indefinitely adjourned.
o If you agree a plan to repay your arrears the Court will probably be happy to grant a suspended possession order.
o Otherwise, the court will make a house repossession order or house repossession notice. This means the lender can take repossession of the property, generally just 28 days later.
For more information please contact a local solicitor, you may be able to have a no obligation chat about the process which may help you to start organising your fight and finances.