Très Parisien, 1925, No. 11, Pl. 12: MODELES des Tissus d'Art - PAYSAGES 1925

This fashion plate, ‘Très Parisien, 1925, No. 11, Pl. 12: MODELES des Tissus d'Art - PAYSAGES’ by G-P. Joumard, is a lithograph. Looking at the way the dresses are laid out on the paper, it's all about process, right? The way that the colours block together. There's this real sense of how this thing was made, and how each element, the figures, shadows and the printed inscription, all come together. I think about the physicality of the medium - you can almost feel the press of the lithographic stone on the paper. And then there's the palette - those soft pastel colours mixed with the stark blacks. The way the blues bleed into the white of the dress on the left gives it this kind of ethereal, dreamy quality. It's like the whole image is breathing. Thinking about the wider context of Parisian fashion at the time, and other artists playing with similar ideas. People like Sonia Delaunay, with her explorations of colour and form. It’s like one big conversation happening across time.