The Fashion Influencers of the French Revolution

Key Facts

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• The discovery of a rare set of fashion plates from a French Revolution-era magazine gave Anne Higonnet insight into a time when women’s clothing became a force of cultural and social change.
• I went to the librarians and said, ‘I’m so sorry I made so much noise, but you have something you don’t even know that you have.’” That something was an extremely rare and complete set of fashion plates from the Journal des Dames et des Modes, a pre-Vogue, pre-Harper’s Bazaar magazine that launched in Paris in 1797, amid the French Revolution.
• The publication documented a brief but crucial period in which clothing, especially women’s clothing, became an unprecedented force of cultural and social change.

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