Fashion Designs from Gazette du Bon Ton, 1920

This hand-colored fashion illustration presents three women modeling contemporary haute couture, likely by designer Jeanne Lanvin. The left figure wears a geometric patterned coat with Asian-inspired motifs; the center model displays a draped silhouette with contrasting fabric; the right figure shows a simplified day dress with decorative details. Rendered in ink with selective hand-coloring, the drawing captures the simplified forms and linear style of 1920s fashion journalism. *Gazette du Bon Ton*, founded 1912, elevated fashion reporting into an art form through collaborations between illustrators and couturiers. These elegant line-based compositions influenced how fashion would be represented in twentieth-century visual culture, establishing conventions that extended from fashion magazines into early comic strip aesthetics.