Miniature: Oriental motifs by Paul Poiret

Fashion is about choice and freedom,
Fashion is taste and style in everything,
A riot of colour and fantasy nature
We dictate the fashion of the day.

Always changeable, always original,
She's right behind us.
Unique, relevant, unique
In fantasy it comes to us.

( N,Fartunova, "Fashion")

Paul Poiret - Parisian fashion designer, the most influential figure in the fashion world of the first quarter of the XX century. His contribution to the fashion of the XX century is equal to the contribution of Picasso to the art of the XX century.
The miniature is made with pastel pencils based on a sketch in ink on linen embossed paper with a fabric texture. Halftone colors change depending on lighting. Pastel is on the verge between drawing and painting and requires very good lighting. Then the infinity of shades appears, the game of translucent layering.