George Barbier French Fashion Illustration Card

From a vintage print by George Barbier, one of the greatest French illustrators of the early 20th century. Barbier was at the forefront of his profession with commissions to design theatre and ballet costumes, illustrate books, and produce haute couture fashion illustrations. For the next 20 years he led a group from the Ecole des Beaux Arts, nicknamed by Vogue, "The Knights of the Bracelet"—a tribute to their fashionable and flamboyant mannerisms and style of dress. Barbier did many illustrations for “The Gazette du Bon Ton”, a small but influential fashion magazine published in France from 1912 to 1925 which featured the latest developments in fashion, lifestyle and beauty during a period of revolutionary change in art and society. This image may have flaws due to the age of the original print. In addition, Sugar Paper Shop has altered the images, which are in the public domain, in order to clean them up and improve colour saturation.