Art - Goût - Beauté, Feuillets de l' élégance féminine, Novembre 1928, No. 99, 9e Année, p. 11 1928

This page, from a 1928 issue of "Art - Goût - Beauté", is a celebration of the female form and fashion, created by an anonymous artist. It's got this sort of quiet, understated elegance about it, using a restrained palette of soft yellows and creams. I can imagine the artist carefully considering each line, each gesture, trying to capture the fluidity and movement of the clothing. Maybe they were thinking about Chanel, and how the fashion house's use of tulle could continue to charm, yet, be substituted with chenille tulle or velvet pastilles. The delicate lines and subtle shading remind me a bit of early 20th-century advertising, yet it's doing something different, speaking to the power of style and the way clothing can transform our sense of self. You see that repeated figure fading into the distance – I feel like this connects it to a much longer conversation about representation. The layering of figures makes me think about the passage of time and shifting ideals of beauty.