While digging through the Rijksmuseum's public domain collection, I found George Barbier's Falbalas et Fanfreluches, a 1920s almanac of hand-stenciled fashion plates that promised fashions "present, past & future."
I built a custom Recraft Style from 10 of his plates, cropping away captions and borders so only his jewel-toned colors, elegant linework, and
confident Parisiennes remained.
Then I gave Barbier the future edition he never got to make: his women deadlifting, running boardrooms, livestreaming makeup tutorials, swiping through suitors and DJing until dawn.
Each scene is presented as a post on Falbalas, an imaginary 1920s social feed where the admirers are many and the comments are scandalized.
It's a celebration of women taking up space, drawn in the style of an artist who always made them the most powerful people in the room.
While digging through the Rijksmuseum's public domain collection, I found George Barbier's Falbalas et Fanfreluches, a 1920s almanac of hand-stenciled fashion plates that promised fashions "present, past & future."
I built a custom Recraft Style from 10 of his plates, cropping...