Topic

The interwar years

Twenty years of unfinished business between two wars.

10: in fashion
8:55: average
89 min: in total
135: across the network

The interwar years across the network →

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9:29

Christian Dior

Dior didn’t liberate women—he re-enchanted them with structure, season by season.

10:24

Harrington jacket

A golf jacket renamed by television, revived by music, and never built for either.

9:18

Ivy League (clothes)

Ivy League clothing was not rebellion—it was recalibration: sportswear stripped of sport, tailoring stripped of tension, class stripped of ceremony.

9:49

Burberry

A war coat that refused demobilisation—and made utility legible as authority.

7:40

Marie-Louise Carven

A dress built for small bodies—and built from housemaids’ cloth—changed how ready-to-wear began.

9:34

Coco Chanel

Chanel didn’t liberate women’s bodies—she outsourced their discipline to jersey.

7:09

Jean Patou

Jean Patou didn’t liberate women’s bodies — he equipped them for sport.

7:48

Rochas

Rochas didn’t make clothes — it edited the body’s margins.

8:33

Chanel is an Anglo-French luxury fashion house founded in 1910 by Coco Chanel in Paris. It began in 1909 as a millinery shop. It popularised sporty, casual chic in the post–World War I era using jersey and prêt-à-porter sports clothes. It closed in 1939. Chanel collaborated directly with the Nazi Sicherheitsdienst during the occupation. She was not charged due to Winston Churchill’s intervention. She revived the house in 1954.

9:28

Christian Dior

Christian Dior’s work from 1947–1957 redefined fashion as seasonal, named, and nationally symbolic — not personal style, but statecraft in cloth.