Tracking the Rise of the Empire Line From Empress Joséphine to Maison Margiela Inline

  • Josphine de Beauharnais by PierrePaul Prud hon
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    Joséphine de Beauharnais by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon

    Portrait of Jos?phine de Beauharnais, the first wife of Napol?on Bonaparte (1763-1814), 1805. Found in the collection of the Louvre, Paris. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

  • Jane Hading as Josphine de Beauharnais
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    Jane Hading as Joséphine de Beauharnais

    UNSPECIFIED - DECEMBER 06: Front page of paper "Le theatre" in may 1899 : Mrs Jane Hading as Josephine in play by Emile Bergerat "pPus que reine", after a photo (Photo by Apic/Getty Images)

  • The Empire line drawn by Georges Lepape
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    The Empire Line drawn by Georges Lepape

  • Jack Haley Ann Sothern and Roger Pryor in The Girl Friend 1935
    Photo: Everett Collection
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    Jack Haley, Ann Sothern, and Roger Pryor in The Girl Friend, 1935

    THE GIRL FRIEND, from left: Jack Haley, Ann sothern, Roger Pryor, 1935

  • Sono Osato
    Photographed by John Rawlings, Vogue, April 15, 1945
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    Sono Osato