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They inspired the one and only dress in our Spring-Summer collection: enter Catherine and her niece Marie de Medici. Also on their resume: undisputed queens of the Renaissance. Catherine de Médicis (left), Marie de Médicis (right) Catherine and Marie had several...

  Today, the Bulletin offers a trunk hose treatise. Gentlemen, pray reveal those legs! Anonymous portrait of Hercule-François, duke of Alençon These short, puffed breeches were one of the emblematic pieces of Renaissance menswear. At the time, a distinction was made...

This week, the Bulletin opens the doors to the Bourgine Gallery for a temporary exhibition devoted to the Renaissance. There you will discover poses borrowed from courtly ladies, profiles artfully composed, hands delicately crossed, and a few accessories gathered from centuries...

For this Renaissance collection, photographic records were scarce. The Bourgine team therefore drew its inspiration from the artworks of the period, and we thank Europe’s best portraitists for their invaluable help. To these artists, we offer a painter’s blouse suited...

Today the report brings you a fashion-history lesson to turn you into a true Renaissance connoisseur. A brief schoolroom refresher before we begin: the Renaissance was the vast cultural, artistic, and intellectual movement that swept through Europe from the mid-15th century to...

This week, in true Rabelaisian spirit, we revealed the theme of our Spring–Summer 2026 collection: Bourgine Renaissance. Our tenth anniversary marked the end of one chapter, and it felt only fitting, with spring in the air, to place this new...