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Théophile Gautier, On Fashion, translated by Richard George Elliott

Abstract Writing in mid-nineteenth-century Paris, Gautier asserts that clothing is of the upmost importance in society and deplores the lack of interest among artists in depicting men and women in modern dress. He strongly criticizes the nostalgia for the classical nude in painting and sculpture (“no more than a convention”) and argues that modern clothing is “the visible form of man” and that the classical elements of style, form and proportion are evident in man’s clothing. He also praises modern women’s clothing, hairstyles and cosmetics, drawing parallels between notions of classical beauty and modern fashion.