#french fashion

[darlingdawnvintage]

Brigitte Bardot Cannes, France 1950’s ✨

[regarde-la]

Anny Duperey for Paco Rabanne, Paris 1969

By Giancarlo Botti

[empirearchives]

Jewelry from Chaumet’s Josephine and Napoleon Exhibition

[theculturesclever]

[skirtmag]

[heaveninawildflower]

Summer day dress (French, circa 1872).

Cotton.

Image and text information courtesy The Met.

[houppellande]

Muscadins costumes from “Harlequinade” - by Robert Perdziola

[fashionhistoryhollywood]

113 years ago today in Paris, Jeanne Margaine-Lacroix made some noise. She sent three models to the horse races in her designs; sans corset, comfortably form fitting, naturally figure flattering, and open up to the knee.. In todays terms the dresses went viral. Basically, the original bodycon dress. Having inherited her mothers fashion house almost a decade earlier, she set off a lot of fundamental changes about what we wear, how we wear it, and the way we see attire altogether (especially women’s attire.) She also ditched standard corsets of the time and debatably reformed the whole concept of underwear. Thanks Jeanne, we appreciate it! 

[kecobe]

La Danse = The Dance George Barbier (French; 1882–1932) Pl. XI in Modes et Manières d'Aujourd’hui (1914) Pochoir print FIT Gladys Marcus Library, Special Collections & College Archives, New York

Je suis beau. Mon corps maigre que vêt une ample robe d’or s’incruste dans le panneau de laque noir….. (I am beautiful. My lean form, clothed in a loose golden dress, blends into the black lacquer panel…..)

[samissadagain]

Robe Valante ca. 1730, French, silk

"This robe volante is an exceedingly rare example of a well-documented form of dress that marked the transition from the mantua of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries to the robe à la française, the dress style that became ubiquitous in the eighteenth century. The unstructured silhouette of the robe volante, with its unbroken expanses of cloth, made it particularly appropriate for the display of large-scale patterning."

[enthraud]

me and my boyfriends

[darlingdawnvintage]

I love this illustration by the fabulous Rene Gruau 1952 • He worked with many fashion magazines and famously worked closely with Dior for his New Look • his work is amazing and endures

[regarde-la]

Sylvie Vartan and Johnny Hallyday, Paris 1971

By Jean-Marie Périer

[empirearchives]

Purses (reticules), dated to the early 19th century

France, Napoleonic era, Empire style

Beaded crochet (silk, metal)

Textiles department

Source: Cooper Hewitt

[onemorebby]

Dua Lipa attending Simon Porte Jacquemus and Marco Maestri’s wedding in France on August 27, 2022

[skirtmag]