fashion
Although tailors and dressmakers were no doubt responsible for many innovations, and the textile industry indeed led many trends, the history of fashion design is generally understood to date from 1858 when the English-born Charles Frederick Worth opened the first authentic haute couture house in Paris. The Haute house was the name established by the government for the fashion houses that met the standards of the industry. These fashion houses have to adhere to standards such as keeping at least twenty employees engaged in making the clothes, showing two collections per year at fashion shows, and presenting a certain number of patterns to costumers. [24] Since then, the idea of the fashion designer as a celebrity in his or her own right has become increasingly dominant. [25] Although aspects of fashion can be feminine or masculine, some trends are androgynous . [26] The idea of unisex dressing originated in the 1960s when designers such as Pierre Cardin and Rudi G