Art - Goût - Beauté, Feuillets de l' élégance féminine, Mai 1929, No. 105, 9e Année, p. 10 1929

This magazine page, "Art - Goût - Beauté," from Paris in 1929, layers text and image, fashion and fantasy. You get a real sense of the designer thinking through form and intention. The images and descriptions conjure the image of women wearing lace, a gossamer fabric that has a light touch, and hides a little without hiding everything. I love how the text wraps around the images, giving you little glimpses of information. It makes me think of the layering of meaning, how each word and image contributes to the overall reading. What was the artist thinking about as they assembled this image? I bet the arrangement was intuitive, driven by a sense of balance and harmony rather than a strict plan. The cream and lemon colours suggest the ephemeral nature of fashion, but they also stand the test of time, still looking fresh today. These anonymous image-makers speak across time, inspiring me to think about how we piece things together, how we make sense of the world through fragments and glimpses.