Costumes — Joëlle Jolivet

An invitation to delve into the large linocut plates surrounding the garment and the costume, and to traverse the surface of the globe as well as the centuries. These images speak to us of what the garment reveals about our belonging, our cultures, and our taste for the decorative. These plates, initially printed in b...

The original drawings by Joëlle Jolivet made for the large-format album "Costumes" published by Les grandes personnes, and other plates excerpted from "Costumes à colorier" by the same publisher.

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