Hermine et lamé argent et or (Hermine and Silver and Gold Lamé)

This fashion illustration by David appeared in *La Gazette du Bon Ton*, the luxury French publication that blended high fashion with fine art. The figure wears an elaborate evening wrap—white fur stole and a red patterned gown with gold lamé trim from Bianchini silks—rendered in colored inks and gouache with precise line work. The elongated, aristocratic pose and stylized face reflect Art Deco aesthetics. Rather than political satire, this belongs to fashion journalism's visual tradition: a descendant of the 18th-century fashion plate and the 19th-century chromolithographed costume print. Such illustrations marketed luxury textiles and silhouettes to elite readers, establishing visual codes that would inform early 20th-century comic art's approach to figure drawing and narrative economy.