Portrait Of Emilie Flöge Gustav Klimt, 1902 Editorial Image

Emilie Flöge and her older sister Helene were the owners of a couture house called Schwestern Flöge (Flöge Sisters), the leading salon of Vienna’s bohemian fashion world, serving the progressive elite the freshest modern styles. Emilie was both a successful business woman and a fashion rebel, evolving her dramatic take on the Reformkleider, flowing garments that allowed women to move freely, and eschewed the brutal corsetry of the 18th century in favor of bold pattern and draped prints that would look at home on today’s runways.