…Jean-Philippe Worth’s, the new “Haute Couture” legend of Paris fashion, favorites to use. The new gold lame’s and sensuous draping opened his mind to all sorts of uses. He liked to combine the white and gold with high contrasting accent pieces in red and black. Eventually, he would focus on black, white, and silver as a color combination.
(In 1891, the new Jean-Philippe designs were cleaner, simpler, and taking on the “wood block” concept of the Art Nouveau specialists that were also being embraced by competitor up and coming designers Poiret and Lanvin)