1/4: Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution Hardcover – by Anne Higonnet (Author)
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🗓️ 27 December 2024
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https://www.amazon.com/Liberty-Equality-Fashion-Styled-Revolution/dp/0393867951
Joséphine Bonaparte, future Empress of France; Térézia Tallien, the most beautiful woman in Europe; and Juliette Récamier, muse of intellectuals, had nothing left to lose. After surviving incarceration and forced incestuous marriage during the worst violence of the French Revolution of 1789, they dared sartorial revolt. Together, Joséphine and Térézia shed the underwear cages and massive, rigid garments that women had been obliged to wear for centuries. They slipped into light, mobile dresses, cropped their hair short, wrapped themselves in shawls, and championed the handbag. Juliette made the new style stand for individual liberty.
The erotic audacity of these fashion revolutionaries conquered Europe, starting with Napoleon. Everywhere a fashion magazine could reach, women imitated the news coming from Paris. It was the fastest and most total change in clothing history. Two centuries ahead of its time, it was rolled back after only a decade by misogynist rumors of obscene extravagance.
New evidence allows the real fashion revolution to be told. This is a story for our time: of a revolution that demanded universal human rights, of self-creation, of women empowering each other, and of transcendent glamor
120+ full color illustrations throughout
1796 Jose[hine and the Revolution fashion
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| 1:11.6 | It is July 30th, 1794 in Paris. |
| 1:14.6 | Emerging from an infamous prison, LaFource, is a young woman named Terracia. |
| 1:20.6 | She emerges, people are watching, and she's embraced by a man named Talian, one of the leading lights of the revolution. |
| 1:28.8 | This moment becomes a significant event in the world of fashion invented again during the French |
| 1:37.7 | Revolution. I learned from a new book. Anne Higone is the author, professor of art history at |
| 1:43.5 | Barnard College. |
| 1:44.8 | The book is Liberty, Equality, Fashion, the women who styled the French Revolution. |
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