Paul Poiret, designing for the House of Paquin, created this coat that exemplifies the hobble shape and the oriental style of the time. Poiret invented the hobble shape. He has been recorded as saying that he freed women from their corsets, but he…
Paul Poiret designed this coat for his wife, Denise, to wear. She paired it with a short dress. It is made of black monkey fur. Poiret helped to make Orientalist fashion so popular in the West in the 1910s.