Dimensions: height 269 mm, width 180 mm
Copyright: Rijks Museum: Open Domain
J. Dory made this artwork sometime around 1923, and it’s giving me ideas! I'm picturing Dory with pen in hand, quickly capturing the essence of Parisian fashion in a series of spontaneous strokes. The color palette is muted but chic, dominated by soft creams, browns, and grays, accented with touches of red and black, which feel so of that moment! The lines are simple yet elegant. The image feels like it’s part of a larger conversation, a dialogue between artists across time. Dory may have been influenced by artists like Erté, who also explored the intersection of art and fashion. It reminds me to think about how artists inspire one another, building on each other’s ideas and pushing the boundaries of creativity! These kinds of drawings always feel open-ended; they embrace ambiguity and uncertainty, allowing for multiple interpretations.
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Très Parisien promoted itself as chic and elegant. Between 1920 and 1936 it presented creations by such couturiers as Chéruit, Premet, Philip et Gaston, and Lanvin. The young, svelte models are all ultra-modern, shown talking on the phone, smoking and playing tennis. The illustrations also show that over the course of the 1920s, skirt lengths had risen to just below the knee, before dropping back down to calf length in the 1930s. The small plates were printed on transparent paper using a stencilling technique known as en pochoir and then hand coloured; many of them are unsigned. The signature ‘Joujou’ belonged to Germaine Paule Joumard, who was the director of Très Parisien, as well as one of the magazine’s illustrators.
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