Antique Fashion Print Le Style Parisien, Evening Dress & Coat, Vintage Art Nouveau Pochoir 1915 Fashion & Costume Original Antique Prints

A fine antique pochoir fashion print.ROBE ET MANTEAU DU SOIRPublished by Librairie Centrale des Beaux Arts Paris 1915 in Lucien Vogel's "Le Style Parisien".A most attractive larger format antique fashion print created using the delicate hand crafted pochoir colour printing technique by Dartey.This matching pair of robe et manteau du soir (evening dress and coat) is presented from the Redfern fashion house.An elegant original art nouveau print which would frame up beautifully for display.A prime example in fine condition other than some light browning to the margin extremities which would be masked off when mounting/matting. Free of repairs or restoration with the original pochoir colours remaining crisp and fresh. Not folded, unrelated printing verso. Printed on robust heavy grade paper. Approx. 17" x 12" (440mm x 300mm) overall.LE STYLE PARISIEN was a highly influential fashion journal edited by Lucien Vogel and briefly published in Paris during World War I. The leading Parisian fashion designers endeavoured to maintain their position in the English, French and American fashion markets during the difficult wartime years. The lavish illustrations from the journal are now extremely scarce and highly collectable. The POCHOIR technique enjoyed a brief popularity during the art nouveau period. It involves printing with the use of hand cut metal stencils, with the colour added by hand brushing with gouache or water colour paints. A different stencil is used for each colour and the whole painstaking process is extremely time consuming and consequently very expensive. It was soon abandoned as uneconomic but the surviving prints are a fine record of the fashions of the day and as works of art in their own right.NDPA324