La Guerre des Modes: À Berlin

This French satirical cartoon by Abel Faivre mocks German fashion during World War I, depicting a Berlin merchant displaying absurd military-inflected styles—spiked helmets and Iron Cross emblems rendered as accessories. A wood engraving in the tradition of Daumier and Gillray, it uses fashion ridicule as nationalist propaganda. The caption notes factories produce 80,000 units daily, conflating commercial production with militarism. The cartoon exemplifies how early-twentieth-century print satire adapted the caricature tradition to wartime messaging, using exaggeration and visual satire to convey wartime messaging and rally domestic support.