V&A Desk Diary 2019

This week-to-view desk diary features beautiful Art Deco fashion illustrations by George Barbier drawn from the V&A's extensive collection of Art Deco magazines. Produced in expensive limited editions, these magazines included hand-coloured pictures, flaunting the decadent life of the jazz age flapp [...]
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This week-to-view desk diary features beautiful Art Deco fashion illustrations by George Barbier drawn from the V&A's extensive collection of Art Deco magazines. Produced in expensive limited editions, these magazines included hand-coloured pictures, flaunting the decadent life of the jazz age flapper in the newly streamlined clothes of Chanel, Poiret and Schiaparelli - for the first time in history, fashion was depicted as art and artists depicted fashion.