BARBIER George (Illustrator)

George Barbier was, together with Paul Iribe and Georges Lepape, one of the great fashion artists of his day. Commissioned by designer Paul Poiret to illustrate his fashions, Barbier here portrays two of Poiret's models in a moonlit rose garden. The evening coat on the right has a long train that falls from the shoulders and drops back at the sides like huge wings. It has an intricate Art Deco design of a stylized tree. A similar coat designed by Paul Poiret and called "Battick" was photographed by Edward Steichen and appeared in Art et Décoration in April 1911. The required headwear to be worn with the coat and equally exotic dress (with its high waistline reminiscent of the "Directoire" line of late eighteenth-century France) was the turban, trimmed with pearls and surmounted by an aigrette. Barbier has united Poiret's simple classical line with the bold colours and design elements of his oriental style. 

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