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Deco Decoy
Morée poses as a Deco fantasy—elegant, feminine, camera-ready.
The kind of thing Erté might have drawn for Harper’s, all grace and ornament, crafted for smooth reproduction and effortless appeal.
But look closer. This is no homage. The elegance is bait. Deco is the setup—Morée is the punchline. Style becomes satire. Erté becomes a prop.
This isn’t illustration—it’s a dismantling. A cool, deliberate act of erasure, dressed in pearls and posturing. The beauty is brittle, the glamour tampered with. Like a costume left out in the rain, it begins to come apart.
Morée performs refinement while quietly tearing it down. A bourgeois fantasy staged for its own undoing. The signature isn’t a name—it’s a riddle.
Not unsigned, but mis-signed. Not a gesture of authorship, but a smirk. A sly Erté pun, delivered with a wink.