Relation: Sports Coat by Paul Poiret

This hand-colored pochoir (stencil print) from the luxury fashion magazine satirizes the exaggerated silhouettes of 1920s haute couture. A woman viewed from behind wears an oversized green jacket and voluminous brown coat, her proportions distorted into absurdity—a visual joke targeting the era's geometric modernism in fashion design. The artist employs the caricaturist's essential tool: distortion for comic effect. Set against a stylized seaside resort, the figure embodies the gap between designer ambition and wearable reality. This fashion satire descends from the print caricature tradition of Hogarth and Daumier, adapting their exaggerative methods to commercial illustration and emerging mass media, establishing visual comedy conventions that would shape early comics and advertising art.