It was a century later, however, during the reign of couturier Charles Frederick Worth, that the haute couture was established in 1868 and Paris's role as the world's wellspring of trends was formalized.

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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 Charles Frederick Worth (the world's very first haute couture designer), bought for her by Lagerfeld.

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To protect what would now be called his intellectual property, Worth in 1868 founded the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture to promote and market Parisian tailoring.

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