John Galliano: Modernity and Spectacle
Figure 9.2.Monumental figure of ‘la Parisienne’ on top of the Porte Binet, the main
entrance to the Paris International Exhibition of 1900, made from
polychrome plaster, with a robe designed by the couturier Paquin.
Sculptor: Moreau-Vauthier. From: ‘The Paris Exhibition 1990: An
Illustrated Record of Its Art, Architecture and Industries’, The Art
Journal Office, London, 1900. Photograph: Syd Shelton