.. as an elite group. There were MANY of them which opened their “fashion houses” or “salons” in large cities, but they also traveled to special clients, especially if such clients would influence others and promote the new innovations.
We have in the fashion eras pages on this website in depth details on these designers and samples of their concepts, so we will only touch on them in brief here.
Top designers of note, because they influenced the top promoters of fashion in the beginning were: Worth, Hirsch, Manning, Minangoy, Redfern, and Vogels. There would be many more by the 1880’s (late Victorian).
(Photo: House of Worth in Paris around 1900)