But in 1947 designer Christian Dior repudiated that starkness with an ultra-feminine silhouette called "the new look." While the 1950s poodle skirt was an evolution of that voluminous look ...

The fashion world brims with origin stories. There’s Coco Chanel popularizing the little black dress in the cocktail culture of the 1920s. There’s Mary Quant staking claim to the miniskirt in ...

Hedy Phillips is the Senior Style News Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work has previously appeared in POPSUGAR, HelloGiggles, Reader's Digest and more. Getty Juli ...

Born Shirley Ann Agin in New York, she was married to an unemployed viscount when, in 1947, she designed a circle skirt with felt appliques, including a poodle. Teens snapped up the design at a ...

Invent the poodle skirt, of course. That, quite by accident, is what Juli Lynne Charlot did in late 1947, in the process creating a totem of midcentury material culture as evocative as the saddle ...

Juli Lynne Charlot, creator of the poodle skirt, dies at 101 The woman who created the poodle skirt that remains a fashion icon from the 1950s, Juli Lynne Charlot, has died at the age of 101.