Bourgine blog

This week, the Report makes a perfectly ill-timed decision: introducing knee-high socks in the middle of June. More specifically, Bas-de-chausses (hose), because it is important not to call a sock a sock. Had our business acumen been sharper, we would...

This week, let’s put costume history on pause for a bit of present-day history. This is a staffing update, and a small treatise on organizational management. Each year, Bourgine’s activity grows by 30%. The team, by 20%. The physical space,...

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...

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 between...

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...