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" French fashion house Vionnet celebrates its one hundredth anniversary with a major comeback and a short film that showcases its founder&amp;#039;s revolutionary pieces while paying tribute to legendary dancer Isadora Duncan. Madelaine Vionnet, who introduced &amp;quot;the biased cut&amp;quot; in the early decades of last century, was a fixture of French high fashion in the 1930s with her graceful Grecian-style dresses. Vionnet rejected the use of corsets and padding in her designs and often drew inspiration from American-born Duncan who broke the then-rigid rules of dancing by performing barefoot, dressed in a white Grecian tunic. Each of the four ballerinas in the short film, available to view below, wears a dress that illustrates Vionnet&amp;#039;s celebrated techniques of draping and twisting the fabric to create sensual gowns that made the eponymous fashion house a favorite of style icons like Katharine Hpburn, Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich.      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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