Hortense, Napoleon’s step-daughter’s fashion influence spread far…

Hortense’s life crossed countries & political changes.  The daughter of a somewhat “radical” fashion icon, she continued many of her mother’s fashionable ideas, while keeping them updated and new.  Her influence was in the 1810’s, where her legacy was to carry high Parisienne fashion into the countries of Holland, Sweden, & Switzerland.

(portrait:  Hortense the fashionable in 1818)