Très Parisien, 1925, No. 7, Pl. 9: Créations PHILIPPE et GASTON - LE JOUR ET LA NUIT 1925

This fashion plate, Très Parisien, No. 7, Pl. 9: Créations PHILIPPE et GASTON - LE JOUR ET LA NUIT, was made by G-P Joumard in 1925 using what looks like pochoir. I can imagine Joumard in his studio, maybe he had jazz music on, as he worked through the layers of colour. This image feels very evocative of the roaring twenties. It has these two women posing elegantly in their flapper dresses, one in a blue frock and the other in black, standing in front of an abstract green hedge. The dresses are very geometric in design. It feels like Joumard has blocked out the colours for the dresses, using light and shade to give them shape. I like the contrast between the figures and the background. Fashion plates like this one, in their own way, are part of this larger ongoing artistic conversation, and the free brushstrokes have a wonderful exuberance.