Madeleine Vionnet is typically credited with inventing bias cutting. It's actually untrue. Cutting on the bias had been in use long before, typically for things like ruffles, and by the start of 1930s Vionnet Inspired Silk Wedding Dress Sweet Disorder Vintage Madeleine Vionnet an introduction V&A Fashion Vocab: Bias Cut Wulfka ICONS: Madeleine Vionnet "The architect of fashion" Yolancris B is for Bias Cut (n.) A technique where fabric is cut diagonally across the grain, allowing it to drape more fluidly on the body; popularized by Madeleine Vionnet in the 1930s.