#1920s paris
Un Garde républicain à cheval règle la circulation, boulevard de Sébastopol, Paris, 21 août 1922.
A cavalryman of the French Republican Guard controls traffic at an intersection on the Boulevard de Sabastopol, Paris.
August 21st, 1922.
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Character design prompt: Dinner party in 1920s Paris and someone’s going to get killed
A little project I might do some more work on later! I spent the week studying French animation and character design and made a short story about a mafia coup attempt! Keep reading for the full story!
Story
Before marrying Byron Chatelain, Alarie was also known as the daughter of the infamous Conein crime families, direct rivals of Byron, a mafia boss. Alarie also had a boyfriend who worked for Byron, but for obvious reasons they kept their ‘Romeo/Juliet’ relationship a secret.
Unfortunately for them, Byron caught them together and was about to kill her boyfriend for betraying him to the Coneins. Luckily, Alarie played her cards right and proposed that she and Byron get married as it would unite two very powerful crime families, as long asByrondoesn’t kill her boyfriend.
Within a month of their marriage, when the Coneins dropped their guard, Byron gets her ex-boyfriend andher father killed. Though he never admits to it, Alarie knows he did it and vows to kill him.
Their married life isn’t fantastic; Byron is very disrespectful to Alarie and treats her as a trophy wife, but he does give her the freedom to go out as she pleases.
One night, she meets Henri Damas, a WW1 war veteran and now a member of an Apache street gang because he couldn’t get good work after the war. Alarie starts an affair with Henri and together they begin to plot to kill Byron. Alarie tells Henri that if he kills Byron at an upcoming party, then she’ll make him the new mafia boss.
Henri has delusions of grandeur and is easily tempted by the idea of power and glory, so he can’t see that Alarie is using him to do her dirty work; in fact, after the job is done, Alarie wants to become the new mafia boss and will probably get Henri killed.
And so when the party comes round, Henri decides to invite his best friend Thomas D’Albret. The two of them met during the war and both joined the same gang on their return to Paris. Thomas hates parties and all things to do with socialising, but he knows Henri has a tendency to get himself into messy situations and so decides to come along just in case things go sideways and he needs to bail Henri out.
The party is going to be a messy one…
Marchesa Luisa Casati in a fountain dress made of wires and lights by couturier Paul Poiret, at the Beaumont Ball held by the Count Etienne de Beaumont in Paris, 1924.
The Beaumont Ball in Paris 1924 (an event with a guest list so selective that Gabrielle Coco Chanel was excluded for being too ‘trade’), was a homage to Pablo Picasso and theCubists. The dress made entirely from wires and lights, it was too wide for the entrance to Beaumont’s ballroom: the artist Christian Bérard, who witnessed Marchesa Luisa Casati attempting to squeeze through the doorway, reported that she collapsed like a “smashed zeppelin”. (x)
De Beaumont’s fêtes reached an apex in 1924 with the ballet series Soirées de Paris, which took place at the Théâtre de la Cigale in Montmartre from May 17 to June 30, 1924. An homage to the review of the same name by Guillaume Apollinaire, the series included the scandalous ballet Mercure, which featured music composed by Erik Satie, sets and costumes designed by Pablo Picasso, and choreography devised by Léonide Massine. (x)
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