"Comment m'habillerai-je ?": Se vêtir sous la Révolution française (1789-1804). Histoire Giacomo Wannenes comprehensively addresses styles

Giacomo Wannenes comprehensively addresses styles and periods that are both so close and so distant

C'est en regard du silence dans lequel les a tenues la société pendant des siècles

After a perilous and exhausting journey

From the Cynics to Aristotle

"Comment m'habillerai-je ?": Se vêtir sous la Révolution française (1789-1804). Histoire Giacomo Wannenes comprehensively addresses stylesFrench society at the end of the 18th century was marked by a culture of appearances. The Revolution marked a shift in the way people dressed. This exhibition catalog explores clothing as a social marker through a study of the iconography of the period. The evolution of female silhouettes, the use of fabrics, and the political message conveyed by clothing are all explored.