Madame Vignon, also known as Madame Vignon-Chauvin (19th century), was a French fashion designer Couturier.Penny McCracken: Women Artists and Designers in Europe Since 1800: An Annotated Bibliography (Bibliography of Women Artists & Designers in Europe Since 18)
Madame Vignon was an established fashion designer during the July Monarchy. She enjoyed a successful career, and came to have an influential position within the French fashion industry and mentioned as a member of the elite fashion designers in mid-19th-century Paris in the era of the Second Republic and Second Empire, alongside other top designers such as Madame Camille, Madame Palmyre and Madame Victorine.Valerie Steele: Women of Fashion: Twentieth-century Designers, Rizzoli International, 1991
As one of the top seamstresses in Paris, she and her main rivalPhilippe Perrot: Fashioning the Bourgeoisie: A History of Clothing in the Nineteenth Century Madame Palmyre was engaged to deliver the 54 dresses trousseau of the new empress of France, Eugénie de Montijo, upon the wedding of Emperor Napoleon III in 1853; it was also Vignon who was given the assignment to design Eugenie´s wedding dress, which became internationally famous.Granström, Alvar, Kvinnor och krinoliner: en mode- och sedeskildring från krinolinmodets tid, Carlsson, Stockholm, 1990 She did the day dresses of the empress, while Palmyre did the evening dresses.James Laver: Manners and Morals in the Age of Optimism, 1848-1914, 1966
The fashion house founded by Madame Vignon, Maison Vignon, traded at 182 Rue de Rivoli, Paris, until at least 1880.
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