We were truly impressed by

We were truly impressed by the fashion plates of George Barbier, the French Art Deco illustrator who drew the Costumes Parisiens for the Journal des Dames et des Modes in 1913: flat stencilled colour, ink lines, one elegant figure per page and a French caption naming the look. So we made a short film in his style, entirely in CapCut. Costumes Parisiens · Arrivée à Los Angeles: a girl from a 1913 plate gets an invitation to CapCut World LA. She's 113 years and 9,000 km late, so she takes the peacock. Every scene is a new page of the magazine: Costume de voyage, Robe de Californie, Broche d'accréditation (the badge worn as a brooch), Robe de scène, and the last shot freezes into a printed plate, "Los Angeles, 2026", rhyming with "Paris, 1913". Barbier's originals are public domain (Rijksmuseum); music: Erik Satie, Je te veux.