Die Pause
1912
Georges Lepape captures the ultimate 1910s fashionista in this striking illustration, standing tall in a flowing white gown and a bold red bolero. Created in 1912, the piece reflects the revolutionary designs of Paul Poiret, who famously liberated women from tight corsets in favor of this loose, elegant silhouette. The elongated figure and flat, decorative colors borrow heavily from Japanese woodblock prints, a hallmark of the Art Nouveau transition into modernism. With her bobbed hair and feathered headband, she looks like she's waiting for the curtain to rise on the Roaring Twenties.
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