La Mode Illustrée, was a French fashion magazine, published between 1860 and 1937.[1] Its subtitle was Journal de la famille.[2] The magazine was founded by Emmeline Raymond, headquartered in Paris and published by the Didot brothers.[2] It was known for its high quality illustrations by Adele-Anaïs Colin Toudouze and Héloïse Leloir.

It was one of the biggest fashion magazines in the world as well as in the French fashion history during the second half of the 19th-century. It has been called the first weekly fashion magazine. It was the French equivalent of the British The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine (1852–1879). Alongside its main rival Le Follet (1829–1892), La Mode Illustrée was particularly successful internationally, with many foreign subscribers in Britain and the United States.

A reason for its success was that it was directed toward the middle and working class and offered patterns to the clothes it illustrated, as well as other subjects such as music reviews, household tips and recipes.

In 1937, the magazine merged and was absorbed into rival magazine La Mode Pratique,[3] which continued to be published until 1951.

References

  1. ↑ Kate Nelson Best (2017). The History of Fashion Journalism. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 30. ISBN 978-1-4742-8517-9.
  2. 1 2 Ruxandra Looft (Winter 2017). "Unseen Political Spaces: Gender and Nationhood in the Berlin and Paris Fashion Press during the Franco-Prussian War". Journal of European Periodical Studies. 2 (2): 45. doi:10.21825/jeps.v2i2.4812.
  3. ↑ Werner, Françoise (1984). "Du Ménage à L'art Ménager:L'évolution Du Travail Ménager Et Son écho Dans La Presse Féminine Française De 1919 à 1939". Le Mouvement Social (in French) (129): 63. Retrieved 2022-11-19.
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