Avenue Montaigne: is global luxury threatening the soul of Paris?
Avenue Montaigne, once known as “Allée des Veuves” because of the many women in mourning who came to stroll along it in the 18th century, is now one of Paris’s most illustrious thoroughfares. Named after Renaissance humanist and philosopher Michel de Montaigne, it is the epitome of Parisian elegance. Although close to the bustling Champs-Élysées, […]
KAT GALLICERE X PENELOPE’S
Kat Gallicere’s first collages were plastered on the walls of her teenage bedroom: compositions of pieces from the ELLE magazines her mother received by post every Monday. What a treasure trove, then, for the collage artist, this collection of magazines, a living archive of twentieth-century fashion. Magazines remain his favorite tool and material, inspiring a […]
Women’s magazines: style on the loose?
There was a time, a sunken world that now seems almost fictional, when fashion magazines didn’t look like store windows.
FASHION MAGAZINES OF THE 20th CENTURY
What better way to inaugurate PENELOPE’S than with an auction
dedicated to the fashion magazines that tell the story of the 20th century?
