Ted Lapidus
The Haute Couture House of Ted Lapidus
Born in Paris in 1929, Ted Lapidus opened his Haute Couture House and a Boutique for Men and Women in Marbeuf in 1957.
It was in 1963 that he was admitted as a member of the Haute Couture Federation, that same year he presented his first fashion collection in 1963. In 1968 Lapidus opened the "Rive Gauche" boutique on the Saint-Germain-des-Près square with the aim of presenting the "first Haute Couture proposition targeted for the twenty-year-old generation"
The early 80s saw Olivier Lapidus succeeds his father and becomes the Artistic Director of the House of Lapidus. He went on to create and present his first Haute Couture collection in July 1989.
In 1995 Jacques Konckier who at the time held the license for the "Parfums Ted Lapidus", acquired the entire Ted Lapidus operation. The Haute Couture collection autumn winter 94/95, who gave the " 33 rd Dé d'Or " was shown at the Musée des tissus de Lyon .
Since 1997 Olivier Lapidus has used technology and research to inject into high fashion unusual combinaitions of colours and materials, highlighted by new techniques of printing and weaving.
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At the time of writing, the practicing Haute Couture houses are as follows:
Balmain, Pierre : Cardin, Pierre : Carven : Chanel : Dior, Christian : Feraud :
Givenchy : Lacroix, Christian : Lapidus, Ted : Laroche, Guy : Rabanne, Paco :
Ricci, Nina : Yves Saint Laurent : Scherrer, Jean Louis : Ungaro, Emanuel
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