From tired seamstress to milliner, into the fashion house of Paquin, and onto the streets alongside the affluent of Paris at the turn of the century.
Stifter
Curtains around 4-poster beds, revealing hidden opinions, framing a cameo landscape, showing time and place, and in a trompe l’oeil still life.
View by many as the start of a slippery slope to prostitution, dressmaking demanded long hours of work in return for a pittance/
Did the sewing machine liberate, subjugate, or was it the start of the road to corruption? Contrasting paintings of its impact on women (and men).
The Eclectic Light Company 