It was a century later, however, during the reign of couturier CharlesFrederickWorth, that the haute couture was established in 1868 and Paris's role as the world's wellspring of trends was formalized.
Those stories were about '20s Chanel dresses, costumes from the Ballets Russes and an entire wardrobe created in the 1870s for a Roman princess by CharlesFrederickWorth (the world's very first haute couture designer), bought for her by Lagerfeld.