Object: Evening dress
Brand:
Calvin Klein
(American, founded 1968)
Designer:
Calvin Klein
(born 1942)
Date: Spring 1992
Medium: Silver metallic chantilly lace and beige chiffon
Country: USA
Credit Line: Gift of Kelly Klein
Object number: 94.143.1
DescriptionSlip style evening dress in silver metallic chantilly lace over beige chiffon, with silver braid shoulder straps and trim; bra style décolleté bodice with triangular stomacher, slightly flared long skirt
Label Text:This classic lace slip dress - a nod to lingerie - integrates the sensual, feminine quality of Chantilly lace with the hard look of silver metal. Its look is refined, sexy, and ultimately daring. Calvin Klein's designs have chronicled the progress of the women's movement, and this dress, like much of his work, acknowledges a woman's prerogative to decide how and when to wear her clothes.
In Collection(s)
Exhibitions:
- Reinvention and Restlessness: Fashion in the Nineties
- Seventh Avenue: Fashion Walk of Fame
- 50 Years of Fashion, 1947 - 1997