A new exhibition, Silk and Steel: French Fashion, Women and WWI, uses the lens of fashion to examine how the war impacted women’s domestic lives and created new opportunities. Trench warfare. The ...
An exhibition at the National WWI Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Mo., explores what wartime women wore — from overalls to evening gowns —... In 1939, anticipating the German invasion of Paris in ...
In 1939, anticipating the German invasion of Paris in World War II, designer Coco Chanel closed up shop. "This is no time for fashion," she said. And, to put it delicately, she shacked up at the Ritz ...