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Très Parisien. La Mode, Le Chic, L’Elégance
Can I see it?
Unknown
Where is “Très Parisien. La Mode, Le Chic, L’Elégance” now? Collection: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Unknown.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- Source
- The museum
About the work
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.
Rijksmuseum
Details
- Accession number
- BI-1966-1051-5-10
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Rijksmuseum
- Image: Rijksmuseum — public domain
