During the mid-1800s, elaborate costume balls were all the rage in France — with painters such as Jean Béraud, whose work "Une Soirée" (1878) is shown here, depicting the extravagant Charles Frederick ...
Paris (CNN) — Over 150 years ago, rich women from all over the world came to 7 Rue de La Paix in Paris to be dressed by couturier Charles Frederick Worth, whose eponymous fashion house, founded in ...