Object: Evening dress
Designer:
Peter Soronen
Date: Spring 2003
Medium: Pale pink silk satin faced organza
Country: USA
Credit Line: Gift of Peter Soronen
Object number: 2006.49.1
DescriptionEvening dress in pale lavender pink silk satin-faced organza, strapless bodice with corsetry-inspired V-shaped gussets and boned inner corset; flared bell skirt with lavender tulle crinoline over matching crepe de chine half-slip; wide black grosgrain ribbon belt with bar and loop back closure
Label Text:This cocktail dress features corsetry-inspired exterior detailing as well a boned inner corset. Peter Soronen's forte is the corset, and has been since the beginning of his career, in Chicago in the early 1990s. Since then, he has made a name for himself creating impeccable eveningwear. Soronen's structured and sophisticated creations have earned him well-known devotees, such as actress Sarah Jessica Parker. She wore the same style dress to the opening of Broadway's The Odd Couple in October, 2005, garnering the praise of the fashion press, and appearing in Vogue's "best dressed."
In Collection(s)
Exhibitions:
- She's like a Rainbow: Colors in Fashion