The luxury fashion label WORTH takes its name from the company founder, Englishman Charles Frederick Worth (1825-1895), who established his Parisian haute couture house in 1857. More than any other designer, Worth was instrumental in establishing the foundations of today’s global fashion industries. In fact, his influence was so seminal that he has oft been described as the ‘Father of Haute Couture’ and the period of France’s Second Empire (1808-73), in which his business flourished, as ‘The Age of Worth’.