Maggie
“The photo is modeled after the portraits of Juliette Récamier, a French Socialite famous for hosting salons of artists and intellectuals and her fashionable Neo Classical style, Portrait of Juliette Récamier, François Gérard, 1805, Musée Carnavalet, Paris, France.”
“The gown was recreated from three embroidered cotton muslin curtains with an under gown made from an up-cycled from a linen duvet cover. The dress was modeled after a “rare embroidered linen ‘Merveilleuse’ gown, French, 1796-1800″ from the The Barreto Lancaster Collection of Napoleonic & Regency Dress that recently sold at Kerry Taylor Auctions for £297,600. This style would have been the height of French fashion in the late 1790s and laid the groundwork for fashionable dress for the next two decades.”