George Barbie was a major contributor to Le Bon Ton. He worked with Nijinsky and with Erte and designed Hollywood films. For over 20 years Barbier led a group from Ecole des Beaux Arts who were nicknamed by Vogue " The Knights Of The Bracelet".A tribute to their fashonable and flamboyant mannerism and style of dress !..... You can see in the fabric the nipped in waists, the trouser length shows socks and heels and the silhouette exaggerated. He also uses whippets/ greyhounds and small deer in a lot of his illustrations. George Barbier (1882 - 1932) was one of the great French illustrators of the early 20th century. Born in Nantes, France on October 10, 1882, Barbier was 29 years old when he mounted his first exhibition in 1911 and was subsequently swept to the forefront of his profession with commissions to design theatre and ballet costumes, to illustrate books, and to produce haute couture fashion illustrations. For the next 20 years Barbier led a group from the Ecole des Beaux Arts who were nicknamed by Vogue "The Knights of the Bracelet"—a tribute to their fashionable and flamboyant mannerisms and style of dress. Included in this élite circle were Bernard Boutet de Monvel and Pierre Brissaud (both of whom were Barbier's first cousins), Paul Iribe, Georges Lepape, and Charles Martin. During his career Barbier also turned his hand to jewellery, glass and wallpaper design, wrote essays and many articles for the prestigious Gazette du bon ton. In the mid 1920s he worked with Erté to design sets and costumes for the Folies Bergère and in 1929 he wrote the introduction for Erté's acclaimed exhibition and achieved mainstream popularity through his regular appearances in L'Illustration magazine. Barbier died in 1932 at the very pinnacle of his success.
woven silk brocade length manufactured by Bianchini-Ferrier with rows of repeating lozenge motif containing two scenes, one with a woman in a 1920's dress holding a hat and feeding a deer, in silvery grey silks with pink hair, surrounded by a red fruit bearing tree with a red trunk and branches and bright mid blue foliage, the grass similar. alternating with rows of a dandy holding a present wearing short length trousers with turn ups and holidng a hat, accompanied by a hound all in silvery grey, the red trunk trees with burnt orange foliage and large pink flowers emerging from the ground, repeat 11 in or 8 cm, 10 ft 4 in x 26 in or 3.15 x 67 cm wide selvedge to selvedge.
Excellent unused condition.
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