How Fashion Gave Birth to Art Deco

The Art Deco style first emerged among a group of young artists in Paris who wished to rejuvenate the depiction of French fashion. This development evolved into Art Deco in the years around the First World War, and came to a peak at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 1925.

Professor Emeritus Chris Browne has assembled a collection of original French fashion magazines and images from the first half of the twentieth century. He will share some of these with the audience at this event, and show how the developments in fashion illustration led to the full flowering of the Art Deco style.

Bookings open Wednesday 25 June.

Part of Melbourne Rare Book Week.