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Dr. Justine De Young

@addressingart.bsky.social

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Prof. of art/fashion history @ FIT & Editor of *Fashion in European Art* & of the Fashion History Timeline. *The Art of Parisian Chic: Modern Women and Modern Artists in Impressionist Paris* (@artofparisianchic.bsky.social), Bloomsbury Visual Arts in 2025.

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · Aug 7

🎉Publication Day! *The Art of Parisian Chic* is now available in softcover, hardcover and ebook formats. Paperback is only $28!

Redheaded woman in black dress stands holding book with the same cover as the painting behind her, which depicts a woman in a 19th c. black dress staring out.

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 1d

It took a highly sophisticated Jacquard weave to create the incredibly detailed oranges that form the fabric of of this early 1890s dress. You can almost smell the citrusy peel. There so many details to observe here, the pattern matching, the cuff trim, the drama! #V&A #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A view of the back of an1890s dress showing the bodice with clusters of oranges woven into the fabric. It has black lace on the sleeves and a high collar

A detail of the front of the bodice of the orange patterned 1890s dress showing black lace at the neckline and the detailed fruit

Sleeve detail of the 1890s orange patterned dress which has a yellow silk trellis work trim with black lace

Full length view of the front of the 1890s dress patterned with oranges and trimmed with black lace

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · 23h

Had a lovely conversation about my new book with Miranda Melcher for the @NewBooksNetwork podcast. You can listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: newbooksnetwork.com/the-art-of-p...

Justine De Young, "The Art of Parisian Chic: Modern Women and Modern Artists in Impressionist Paris" (Bloomsbury, 2025) - New Books Network

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · 4d

Last week a German journalist contacted me after finding my book at MoMA, so I of course had to go see it there for myself! ❤️ My first time seeing it in a bookstore! Very exciting. 😍

Anyone who goes to see the Sargent show at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, please snap a pic of my book in that shop. 🙏

The Art of Parisian Chic in a bookstore display with other stacks of books.

Overall view of the book section of the MoMA bookstore with the display with The Art of Parisian Chic.

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Christie Stratos @christiestratos.bsky.social · 6d

1856 two-piece cocoa-brown silk taffeta day dress

Dusty-rose silk braid terminating in hand-knotted fringe as applied collar, bell sleeves, and peplum

Center-front two-tone cloth-covered button closures

Trained skirt, cartridge-pleated center-back

[Augusta Auctions]

#19thc 🗃️ 🗃️🪡

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · 6d

What collection is it in/where did you find it?

Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · 12d

The research I’m presenting is not yet published anywhere, but on Abbéma’s self-fashioning, you could see Miranda Mason’s dissertation on Bernhardt’s sculpture. On Abbéma generally there’s a brief biography by Denise Gellini and a MA thesis by Tristan Cordeil, which are the easiest sources to access

Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · 12d

Thrilled to be presenting my newest research on Louise Abbéma and lesbian self-fashioning in Belle-Epoque Paris at the Feminist Art History Conference in DC on Sunday. #arthistory 🗃️

Public Selves, Private Lives:
Lesbian Self-Fashioning in Louise Abbéma’s Portraiture by Justine De Young. Crop of Abbéma’s Lunch in the Conservatory at right showing Abbéma lounging back on one elbow with a woman in a white dress seated at the table next to her. A small black dog eats off a plate on the ground. The divan is covered with a red oriental carpet and leopard skin. An older man stands behind the table with his hand in his pocket.

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · 12d

I'll be presenting in-person on the 28th!

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · 19d

Same. Make sure you don't accept the new TOS when you first login as they try to force you to. Instead click on the Terms of Service link and then go up to the account menu and find the delete your account button.

Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 20d

Saw a lot of posts about academia dot edu today and smiled because I haven't logged in since the 2010s....

... anyway it turns out I never formally deleted the account. Went ahead and did that today. In case you, too, decided in 2018 that if you ignored it it would go away.

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 21d

This arresting portrait by Washington G. Smith of Cooperstown, NY displays the fashionable silhouette on the cusp of the Natural Form era: swaths of draped silk taffeta in the back of the skirt, but no clear bustle. collections.fenimoreart.org/objects/2769... 🗃️🪡

A studio photograph of a woman in a velvet-trimmed gown, with a dog curled up on a chair.

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · Sep 7

What airport are you subtweeting specifically? 😂

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Joanne Fuchs 🗺🍎 @geojo22.bsky.social · Sep 4

Gift link. #sschat #edusky

I’m a High Schooler. AI Is Demolishing My Education.

The end of critical thinking in the classroom

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · Aug 31

Plot twist: Arc de Triomphe lady has red hair. Now do people think she's a different lady? Or do we think it's just dyed? #arthistory #France

White woman with red hair, wearing a high necked green velvet dress with feathered hat. Arc de Triomphe in background.

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · Aug 30

Yeah it’s one of the reasons her work is so dispersed as there was no family to look after it or publicize it after she died like the families of other Impressionists did.

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · Aug 30

So do I! Her sketches in her letters are such fun.

Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · Aug 30

There is tremendous diversity in her portraiture. It was one of her specialties. But she did paint several women quite often (in the other cases I know they were close friends), so I'm intrigued by who this woman might be. They're definitely not self-portraits; here's a self-portrait:

Abbéma self-portrait. Dark brown hair, cropped bangs. Gray dress with black bow and white collar.

Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · Aug 30

Her parents were also only children. She didn't have any cousins beyond some very distant ones in other countries. The last painting I posted is of a neighbor.

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · Aug 30

One of the few things I can say for sure is that it’s not the artist’s family as she was an only child.

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · Aug 29

Reposting this as 2 of the women are being hidden unless you click. (There are 4 women here).

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · Aug 29

If you click on the first image you’ll see there are 6 women (4+2) 😅

Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · Aug 29

What about this woman? Same or different? This painting is about 8 years earlier than the others. @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social

White woman in dark purple dress sits on a chair, with a book in her lap. Curly blondish bangs and hair up.

Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · Aug 29

If anyone has any idea who these women might be, I'd also welcome any names! 🗃️

Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · Aug 29

I'm virtually positive the 2 women on the left are the same and the 2 women on the right (boater/red hat) are the same, but do we think they're all the same woman? What about the 2 blondes? I think they're the same, but are they yet a 3rd woman? These are all paintings by Louise Abbéma. #arthistory

Blonde woman with bangs with her hair up in pink bodiced dress, red flowers in hair and at her chest. The same woman drinking tea in a purple blouse. Curly hair.

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · Aug 29

Oh I think you're right on both counts!

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