Object: Evening dress
Brand:
Lanvin
(French, founded 1889)
Designer:
Jeanne Lanvin
(1867 - 1946)
Date: Winter 1928
Medium: Silk taffeta and silk net
Country: France
Credit Line: Museum purchase
Object number: 2013.5.2
DescriptionAqua blue sleeveless evening dress in iridescent silk taffeta, scoop neck bodice with dropped waist hip yoke, full flared skirt with cascading rows of taffeta petals on silk net, zigzag hemline longer at sides, bias trim; altered
Label Text:Throughout the 1920s, couturier Jeanne Lanvin championed full-skirted dresses that were alternatives to the era’s prevailing sleek moderne sheaths. Lanvin’s robe de style de dixhuitième siècle, or eighteenth-century style dress in French, was evocative of the costumes made for Ballets Russes productions such as Carnaval. The robe de style (as it is popularly known), with its dropped waist and billowing, flared skirt, was also called the “Camargo” frock, after the Rococo-era ballet dancer Marie Camargo, who was famous for shortening her panniered gowns to reveal her virtuoso footwork.
In Collection(s)
Exhibitions:
- Faking It: Originals, Copies, and Counterfeits
- Designing Women: Fashion Creators and Their Interiors
- Ballerina: Fashion's Modern Muse