Incroyables
Merveilleuses

The graduation collection, called "Les Incroyables," was based on French revolutionaries.

His first show, "Les Incroyables," was inspired by the French Revolution.

Les Incroyables, young people who wore clothes that were intentionally too large or too small, dressed that way to tick people off.

Les Modernes Incroyables, a satire on French fashions of 1810; long tight breeches or pantaloons, short coats with tails, and massive cravats.

One of the first John Galliano's collections, 'Les Incroyables' featured many yards of Ascher's cream cheesecloth, drenched in water.

"Les Incroyables," which is attracting a growing cult audience in the SoHo supper club Kaptain Banana (101 Greene Street), isn't always so amusing.

His first collection was inspired by the French Revolution and entitled Les Incroyables, with a music soundtrack mixed by DJ Jeremy Healy.

In 2007, the team won the Outaouais Division I championship but lost to the J-H Leclerc Incroyables (Granby) in the provincial final.

His graduate collection in 1984, entitled Les Incroyables, was bought in its entirety by fashion doyenne Joan Burstein, owner of Brown's, the South Molton Street boutique.

Their counterparts in France, known as the "Incroyables", wore top hats of such outlandish dimensions that there was no room for them in overcrowded cloakrooms until the invention of the collapsible top hat.

It was only a matter of time before Harlech hooked up with John Galliano, who, in 1984, had just graduated from St Martins, unleashing his French Revolution-inspired Incroyables collection on a New Romantic-crazed London.

Alexander McQueen's collection Jack the Ripper Stalks His Victims, John Galliano's Les Incroyables, and Stella McCartney's star-studded graduation show are all features of McInerney's Central Saint Martins work.

Gentlemen began to replace the tricorne with the top hat at the end of the 18th century; a painting by Charles Vernet of 1796, Un Incroyable, shows a French dandy (one of the Incroyables et Merveilleuses) with such a hat.

In the most uproarious moment of "Les Incroyables," a streamlined hybrid of the Folies-Bergere and a contemporary drag show, Daniel Rohou, a portly transvestite clown who looks like Divine, leads a corps of dancers in a recreation of routines from Madonna's Blond Ambition tour.

The same was true 150 years earlier, during the Reign of Terror, when French dandies known as Les Incroyables sported deliberately ludicrous fashion as a form of political protest.

The Times opened: "There is plenty of life in Les Merveilleuses yet."

Les Très Merveilleuses Victoires des femmes du Nouveau monde, 1553.

The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack (Les Merveilleuses Mésaventures De Flapjack)

Later the same year, she appeared in the title role of See See at the Prince of Wales Theatre then appeared in The Merveilleuses into early 1907.

La gamme de cosmétiques, baptisée Les Merveilleuses, a fait son apparition au Japon en janvier 2012, où cinq collections par an sont proposées.

Sui also partnered with French dessert maker Ladurée to create a collaboration called Anna Sui x Ladurée as a part of the Les Merveilleuses Ladurée collection.

When he returned from his second journey to the East, he dedicated two works to her memory: Les Très Merveilleuses Victoire des Femmes du Nouveau Monde and La Vergine Venetiana .

In addition to Madame Tallien, famous Merveilleuses included Anne Françoise Elizabeth Lange, Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Récamier, and two very popular Créoles: Fortunée Hamelin and Hortense de Beauharnais.

Gentlemen began to replace the tricorne with the top hat at the end of the 18th century; a painting by Charles Vernet of 1796, Un Incroyable, shows a French dandy (one of the Incroyables et Merveilleuses) with such a hat.

In the 1930s Christiné contributed to the renewed fashion for more large-scale spectacular musicals, with pieces for the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, Au temps des Merveilleuses and Yana; for these he wrote the more vibrant numbers, while Richepin did the romantic songs.

He also revived Little Hans Andersen at the Adelphi Theatre, in 1903, and adapted Victorien Sardou's play Les Merveilleuses as the libretto for George Edwardes's musical at Daly's Theatre, The Merveilleuses (1906).