Belle Époque fashion Charles & Cie. – Jean Droit, ca. 1905-1910
€275
Belle Époque fashion, colour lithographs designed by Jean Droit, circa 1905–1910. Size (image): 22.3 x 13.7 cm (frame: 38 x 28.5 cm).
These advertisements for the Brussels firm Charles & Cie., Pelleteries Fourrures (fur fashion) depicts elegantly dressed women adorned in fashionable stoles, collars, and hats. The scenes evoke the atmosphere of the late Belle Époque: urban sophistication and life in salons and along the boulevards at the dawn of the twentieth century. Large hats, long and slender silhouettes, and a graceful appearance shaped by Parisian haute couture define the figures.
Jean Droit (1884–1961) presents these women not merely with luxurious garments, but also embodies the modern woman. They move visibly and with a degree of freedom in the public sphere—on the street, shopping, reading—although their world remains one of affluence, style, and social distinction. The lithographs function both as advertisement and as fashion image: they promote fur, but also an ideal of elegance and modern femininity.
Prijs Euro 275,- (each, incl. frame)
