Toujours Chic Les Robes, Hiver 1921-1922: Rouge-Gorge 1921 - 1922

G-P. Joumard's "Toujours Chic Les Robes, Hiver 1921-1922: Rouge-Gorge" at the Rijksmuseum presents us with an image of interwar fashion. The artwork depicts a figure in a bold red coat with fur trim and sharp black hat—it's giving flapper meets robin red-breast. I imagine Joumard, poised with a brush, carefully outlining the figure. The confident lines and blocks of color feel deliberate, a controlled chaos that mirrors the era’s own artistic experimentations. There’s a hint of Matisse in the flat planes of color and bold outlines, but also something distinctly modern in the silhouette's simplification. The artist seems to be responding to and anticipating the changing face of fashion, and so, the changing lives of women. The bold red is like a call to attention— it reminds me how fashion and art constantly talk to one another!