Erte Pochoir Fashion Plate (Style-Only, Image-Conditioned)
Style register: Erte-era 1920s fashion illustration and hand-colored pochoir plates, long silhouette rhythms and crisp stencil pigment on fine paper.

The prompt
Re-render this image as a 1920s pochoir fashion plate in the visual register of Erte's elegant line drawings, preserving the actual subject, its pose, and its arrangement even when the subject is not a person. Draft one continuous charcoal-black contour around the major silhouette, then layer broad fields of hand-stenciled gouache over warm ivory rag paper. Use dusty coral, peacock blue, black, and a few narrow strokes of metallic silver. Let long flowing lines already present in the source become graceful arcs, without adding a costume, headdress, or invented body. Where the source includes fabric, translate folds into a few flat crescent planes with knife-sharp edges; elsewhere treat the same shapes as ornamental rhythm rather than clothing. Leave tiny variations in pigment density near stencil cutouts and a slight dry-brush feather at a single edge so the plate does not look mechanically filled. Keep facial or object details sparse and decisive, with no intricate jewelry or pictorial scenery. A slim column of empty background should counterbalance the silhouette like an unprinted margin in a fashion folio. The mood is poised, theatrical in gesture but intimate in material, never a cinema advertisement. Leave a calm, uncluttered band of negative space along the top or bottom edge where a title could sit. Strictly no on-canvas text, no legible lettering, no signature, no watermark, no logos. Preserve the subject, pose, and composition of the source image exactly, change only the medium and rendering. Aspect ratio matches source.
What it is doing
The plate makes ease from a process of cutting, alignment, and repeated hand application. Its long line treats poise as something engineered. The result can honor whatever shape the source provides without requiring a body or a fashion product.
Tuning knobs
- Contour: `single charcoal line` (signature) vs `paired fine outlines` vs `soft graphite outline`
- Pigment: `coral peacock blue and silver` (signature) vs `black gold and cream` vs `plum teal and ivory`
- Stencil edge: `crisp with minor feathering` (signature) vs `perfectly sharp` vs `soft worn stencil`
- Line rhythm: `long flowing arcs` (signature) vs `short stepped curves` vs `severe verticals`
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