#French fashion magazine

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Georges Barbier (French, 1882-1932), illustrator • Incantation • illustration for Gazette du Bon Ton • 1922 • Pochoir print • Private Collection

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French School, Art Deco fashion illustrations, Feuillets de L'Elegance Feminine (Leaflets from L’Elegance Feminine), from fashion house Premet and Jean Patou for French Fashion Magazine Art-Goût-Beauté, October 1923.

Pipo. - Navy blue serge dress mantle with coloured cotton embroidery, by Madam Premet.

Fleur du Japon. - Red and black satin three-piece, embroidered with small flowers to match, by Jean Patou.

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French Photo Magazine Nov 2000 - Laetitia Casta by Markus Klinko

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Anna Karina in a photoshoot for, 'Anna,' (1967) Photographed by Giancarlo Botti

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❀ 𝐒𝐲𝐥𝐯𝐢𝐞 𝐕𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧 ❀

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Aviana M captured by Mikael Schulz for French Magazine March 2024

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Mask and gown designed by Jacques Fath, 1946

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René Gruau

Advertising illustration for Miss Dior (Collection of Parfums)

Christian Dior, Paris, 1949

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Sculy Mejia and Toto Matoch lensed by Yis Kid for Numéro Netherlands May 2024

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Team Haiti's opening ceremony uniforms for the 2024 Olympics, designed by Haitian-Italian designer Stella Jean.

The trousers and skirts are printed with 'Passage', an artwork by Haitian artist Philipe Dodard.

'...Stella Jean says she created uniforms on a humble budget for Team Haiti, one of the smallest delegations in the Olympics with just seven athletes...

...The look takes its white, red, and blue hues from the Haitian flag, with the men’s uniform consisting of a light blue jacket, an adaptation of the guayabera shirt worn by men in the Caribbean, vibrant trousers channeling Naïve folk art, and a Fular scarf. The women’s look features a skirt in the same material, paired with a light blue shirt and structured jacket with a cinched waist. Philippe Dodard, an acclaimed Haitian painter, designed the fabric for the trousers and skirt. 

Wearing these uniforms at the Paris Olympics takes on an even deeper meaning for Haiti, once known as Saint-Domingue, a French colony that fought for its independence during the Haitian Revolution, the first successful resistance movement led by enslaved people against the French colonial regime from 1971 to 1804. “It’s hugely symbolic,” says Jean, who is Haitian-Italian, adding that she merged Haitian fabrics and motifs with Western silhouettes as “a tool of counter colonization.”

Jean ran into some issues as she worked to create her designs. Export embargoes in Haiti made sourcing chambray, a cotton-like material, for the women’s shirt difficult. “I used one of my dresses that my grandmother gave to me, because we were not able to source it otherwise. I hope she will forgive me because she's not here anymore,” Jean says, joking that her design unintentionally became more sustainable.

Throughout the process, she recognized the rare opportunity to present the world with a positive news story about Haiti, as the country struggles with a recent history of political violence, coups, and the deadly 2020 earthquake. Ongoing violence at the hands of armed gangs has displaced approximately 580,000 people, per U.N. figures.  

“Haiti has no materials now. We have nothing to sell to the world. Our strength right now is this intangible richness [from] our deep culture,” Jean says. “We are here, we are joyful, and we will be back on our own two feet again.”...' Time Magazine

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George Barbier (French, 1882 - 1932) • Illustration published in the Gazette du Bon Ton • 1914

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Umberto Brunelleschi, Robe du soir de chez Marie-Louise Barclay, La Guirlande, 1919.

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For #FashionFriday :

Dressing gown (Saut de lit). Engraving by Gerda Wegener (Denmark, 1886-1940), Paris, Journal des Dames et des Modes, 20 July 1914 (no. 78). Chester Beatty Library WEp 0958

🆔 The model’s feathered friend - a perfect match for her gown! - is a Blue-and-Yellow Macaw (Ara ararauna).

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Françoise Hardy in, 'What’s New Pussycat' (1965)