Object: Dress
Brand:
Céline
(French, founded 1945)
Designer:
Phoebe Philo
(born 1973)
Date: Spring 2017
Medium: Silk Jersey
Country: France
Credit Line: Gift of Céline
Object number: 2017.19.1
DescriptionDress in pink silk jersey with sleeveless fitted bodice and gathered full skirt with an extended long train with vertical gathering at center back, which allows the train to be flipped over the head to form a self draped cape. Hems are unfinished
Label Text:Phoebe Philo’s work for Céline has been extraordinarily popular with fashion professionals for whom it represented the intelligent woman’s style of dress. Her draped dress in “Lipstick Fluid” jersey is therefore a sign that pink has become accepted as a grown-up color.
In Collection(s)
Exhibitions:
- Paris, Capital of Fashion
- Pink: The History of a Punk, Pretty, Powerful Color