Fortunio
Fashion Design
early 1898 (designed)
early 1898 (designed)
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'Fortunio'. Tailored costume, a skirt and flaring bolero with applied rows of top-stitching or braid in dovetail arrangement, the bolero flaring loosely over a cerise and white striped fitted corselette waist which picks up on the cerise braiding on the bolero collar and suggested in the top-stitching on one sleeve. One of a group of 53 fashion designs bound in a volume of Paquin designs for town wear for Summer 1897. Most in pen and ink with touches of watercolour, some with names, details, and fabric swatches attached.
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| Materials and techniques | Drawing |
| Brief description | Jeanne Paquin, Été 1898. 'Fortunio'. Tailored costume, a skirt and flaring bolero with applied rows of top-stitching or braid in dovetail arrangement, the bolero flaring loosely over a cerise and white striped fitted corselette waist which picks up on the cerise braiding on the bolero collar and suggested in the top-stitching on one sleeve. Design for a town dress. |
| Physical description | 'Fortunio'. Tailored costume, a skirt and flaring bolero with applied rows of top-stitching or braid in dovetail arrangement, the bolero flaring loosely over a cerise and white striped fitted corselette waist which picks up on the cerise braiding on the bolero collar and suggested in the top-stitching on one sleeve. One of a group of 53 fashion designs bound in a volume of Paquin designs for town wear for Summer 1897. Most in pen and ink with touches of watercolour, some with names, details, and fabric swatches attached. |
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| Credit line | Given by the House of Worth |
| Bibliographic reference | Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1957-1958 London: HMSO, 1964 |
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| Accession number | E.119-1957 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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