96.69.28

Images (4)

Designing Women_18 (Left to Right) Elizabeth Hawes, Evening Coat and Evening Dress, New York, circa 1935 (69.156.11, 69.156.1); Image of the Hawes showroom, 1933; Muriel King, Evening Dress, New York, 1936 (71.268.36); Valentina Schlee, New York, circa 1933 (96.69.28)

Designing Women_19 Designers Left to Right: Muriel King (71.268.36), Valentina Schlee (96.69.28), Lily Daché (74.110.1, 95.103.28); Pauline Potter Fairfax for Hattie Carnegie (95.106.1), Mollie Parnis (80.312.10); original image by Bil Donovan of Mollie Parnis Livingston’s apartment by Billy Baldwin

Object: Evening dress

Designer: Valentina (1899 - 1989)

Date: c. 1933

Medium: Silk crepe

Country: USA

Credit Line: Gift from The Dorothea Stephens Wiman Collection

Object number: 96.69.28

DescriptionAnkle length evening dress in fushcia pink silk with deep CF slit; peplum style waist created by self wrap tie; 3/4 length dolman sleeves and four gore skirt

Label Text:The Russian-American designer Valentina created this bright pink evening dress several years before Schiaparelli’s Shocking Pink.

In Collection(s)

1930s

Exhibitions:

Designing Women: Fashion Creators and Their Interiors
Pink: The History of a Punk, Pretty, Powerful Color