Art - Goût - Beauté, Feuillets de l' élégance féminine, Juin 1932, No. 142, 12e Année, p. 8 1932

This fashion plate comes from a 1932 issue of *Art - Goût - Beauté* and is signed R. Drivon. Can you imagine what it was like to be Drivon, sitting at a table with pen and ink, carefully rendering these women in their elegant fashions? It’s such a specific moment in time: the crisp lines of the clothing, the confident poses, the overall sense of modernity. The color palette is restrained, almost pastel, but there's a subtle vibrancy, like light filtering through a sheer curtain. Look at the confident and graceful pose of the figures. Each line seems so decisive, so sure of itself. And what about the materiality? Fashion plates like this were precursors to fashion photography, a way of communicating new styles and trends. In a way, Drivon was participating in a visual conversation with other artists and designers of the time, each contributing to our understanding of what it meant to be modern in the 1930s. It's a reminder that creativity is often a collaborative process, with artists building upon each other's ideas and innovations.