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Pagode: Costumes Parisiennes, 1914
Étienne Drian (French, 1885–1961)
Hand-colored print
The Irene Lewisohn Costume Reference Library, Woodman-Thompson Collection (LY62.38.1[20])

The pagoda became the most pervasive and easily recognizable symbol of China in the West. In the teens, dress emulated the tiered form, as the shifting silhouette moved away from the body and became an abstracted tube or cone comparable to the axioms of Cubism and Futurism.

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    Pagode: Costumes Parisiennes, 1914
    Étienne Drian (French, 1885–1961)
    Hand-colored print
    The Irene Lewisohn Costume Reference Library, Woodman-Thompson Collection (LY62.38.1[20])