“Liberty Equality Fashion” explores radical shifts in fashion that embodied the ideas of the French Revolution and the women who led the charge. By Dina Gachman Most days, Anne Higonnet is ...

The motto of the French Revolution was “Liberty, equality, fraternity.” It could also have been “Liberty, equality, fashion.” Postscript: By the end of 1804, Napoleon had grown wary of ...

Every item on this page was chosen by an ELLE editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Olympics or not, there is no denying the je ne sais quoi of Parisian style.

“Fashion in the French Revolution” (which doesn’t feature in Higonnet’s source notes). Many plates were online long before the National Library of France digitized its complete collection ...

In “Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution,” Anne Higonnet explains how, a century before Coco Chanel released women from their restrictive dress, a trio of women ...