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Events on Sunday 30 April 1944 1
1879 – 1944Paul Poiret (1879-1944)Died 30 April 1944, aged 65French couturier who freed women's fashion from the corset in the early twentieth century. His designs drew on Orientalism and Art Deco. He was the leading Paris designer before the First World War but died in poverty.