Worth’s innovations went beyond runway, design..

.. and marketing.  In the beginning when Worth was still in England, he cut off French clothing labels & sewed them onto his English made clothes, introducing the first designer labels.  Later, when his designs and market could stand on its own, he made his designs available to other dressmakers, clothing manufacturers, and department stores, thus creating the first wholesale structure for the clothing industry.

(Photo:  Charles Worth at the peak of his career in the 1880’s and 1890’s not only serving top clientele from around the world, but also introducing new concepts of business structure)