Home/Symbols/Floral patterned dressFloral patterned dress SymbolismClothing patterned with buds and leaves echoes blooming nature and signals seasonal freshness.Common ThemesThe modern lens: urban life & speedMimesis vs. abstraction (truth vs. artifice)Seasons & cyclesGender & sexualityFashion & adornmentBeauty & the idealArtworks Featuring This SymbolJeanne (Spring)Édouard Manet (1881)Édouard Manet’s Jeanne (Spring) fuses a time-honored allegory with <strong>modern Parisian fashion</strong>: a crisp profile beneath a cream parasol, set against <strong>luminous, leafy greens</strong>. Manet turns couture—hat, glove, parasol—into the language of <strong>renewal and youth</strong>, making spring feel both perennial and up-to-the-minute <sup>[1]</sup><sup>[2]</sup>.
