"Thtre des Champs-lyses". Culture: French. Designer: Paul Poiret (French, Paris 1879-1944 Paris). Date: 1913.Poiret's radical approach to dressmaking was inseparable from his ideas of the body, which found their ultimate expression in his advocacy of an uncorseted figure. While Poiret was not the only designer to promote an integrated and intelligible corporeality, he was among the first to link it to the naturalism of Greco-Roman dress.The first display of a classical sensibility appeared in Poiret's fashions of 1906, the year that he abandoned the corset. However, as seen in his "1811" dress, which reflects the proportions and cylindrical silhouette of the Directoire, it was classicism through the lens of the late eighteenth century. The same allusive rather than academic classicism is manifested in Poiret's "Thtre des Champs-lyses" evening dress, which was worn by Denise Poiret to the premiere of Igor Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps, marking the opening