Callot sisters
The Callot sisters or Callot Soeurs were four French fashion designers who opened a fashion salon in Paris in 1895, which continued until 1937. The Callot sisters Marie Callot Gerber, Marthe Callot Bertrand, Regina Callot Tennyson-Chantrell and Joséphine Callot Crimont were involved.
Her fashion was characterized by a lush style, her dresses were preferably made of silk and heavy velvet or satin fabrics. They used antique lace and borders, pearls and feathers in their clothes and were the first to use gold and silver lamé fabrics in their collections.
The Callot sisters also found their way into world literature . Marcel Proust mentions them in his novel In Search of Lost Time : There one of the characters in the novel explains that besides them, "who still do a little bit of lace, Doucet , Chéruit and sometimes Paquin " there are only dreadful couturiers .