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GEORGE BARBIER (Nantes, October 10, 1889 – Paris, 1932) was a painter, illustrator and designer of French fashion.
A pupil of Jean Paul Laurens at the Paris “National school of Fine Arts”, he began to display his work in the Humorists’ Salon in 1910, under the pseudonym of Edouard William.
The following year he displayed his works in the Boutet de Monvel Gallery.
From 1912 until he died, Barbier was regularly present in the Salon of Decorative Artists.
He worked for satirical newspapers, such as Le rire or La Baionette, and for fashion magazines, such as La gazette du bon ton, for which he contributed both drawings and articles, Modes et manières d’aujourd’hui, Les fuillets ‘Art, Femina, Vogue, Comoedia illustré, The newspaper for ladies and fashions, always using the pochoir technique, which he preferred. He also wrote the ex libris of Jacques Nouvion, director of The newspaper for ladies.
