Do you need a change of scenery ? Do you feel like escaping into another era for a while ?
Follow me then ! In this new book, I invite you to travel in time and to discover surprising long-forgotten characters.
It was over a century ago. Here is that extraordinary woman, Jacqueline Rivière, who passed away exactly a hundred years ago. Nobody remembers her, and yet her magazine La Semaine de Suzette is world famous, it has delighted millions of little girls…and today thousands of people are enthusiastic about her work. Thanks to her, three million Bleuette dolls were sold.
Here is Bleuette, this charming 27cm-high doll, whose destiny is unique in the world of dolls thanks to her fabulous trousseau—thousands of outfits that tell about the history of fashion, miniature garments of unparalleled quality. You will discover a hundred of them in my book, made with vintage fabrics, buttons and lace after the patterns published in La Semaine de Suzette.
Here is Paul Arbelet, my husband’s grandfather, writer, photographer extraordinaire and Classics professor and lecturer. The photos he took at the beginning of the twentieth century—when Bleuette was born—plunge us into the everyday reality of that era. He rubbed shoulders with the literary figures of his time, and was a friend of Elsa Schiaparelli’s.
Here is my book—Discover it. Think of your Christmas presents! You will not find it anywhere else.
Christine Arbelet