Christoph Drecoll

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Drecoll model Paris, spring 1913

Johann Wilhelm Rudolf Christoph von Drecoll (born November 21, 1851 in Hamburg ; † November 17, 1939 in Lobetal ) was a German couturier .

Life

Drecoll is completing an apprenticeship at the Hamburg fashion house Röper & Messerschmidt . He then went to Vienna, where he initially worked for Josef Hallauer and opened his own salon in the 1880s. He became known for stage costumes, in particular one that he made in 1895 for the debut of actress Adele Sandrock in the role of Maria Stuart at the Burgtheater , but also for riding costumes, among other things he also worked for Empress Elisabeth . In 1895 the Vienna Salon was taken over by the Dutch company Kahn und Berg . Drecoll opened a salon in Paris in 1905, which lasted until 1930. He had further offices in New York and Berlin.

Drecoll's style was extravagant and often ahead of general fashion. In 1892 he is said to have given the decisive impetus for the emergence of the balloon sleeve .

literature

  • Ingrid Loschek: Reclam's fashion and costume lexicon. 5th edition Reclam, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-15-010577-3 , p. 531
  • Dorothea Ziegel: The man who attracted women. The life novel of the fashion king Drecoll. Neff, Berlin 1933

Web links

Commons : Christoph Drecoll  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Claudia Balk:  Sandrock, Adele. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 429 f. ( Digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Drecoll, Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Drecoll, Johann Wilhelm Rudolf Christoph von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German couturier
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH November 17, 1939
Place of death Lobetal