Object: Evening dress
Designer:
Norell
(1900 - 1972)
Date: c.1965
Medium: Wool crepe
Country: USA
Credit Line: Gift of Lauren Bacall
Object number: 70.43.21
DescriptionBlack wool crepe flapper evening dress with bateau neck, two tier fringe of self bands, and narrow rhinestone buckle belt at drop waist
Label Text:Norell was known to begin research for a collection by combing through images of past fashions in magazines. Norell seemed to prefer the 1920s, which was perhaps not coincidentally the decade in which he began his career. In 1965, he produced designs so similar to the 1920s that fashion writer Marylin Bender asked “Is it Norell… or Vintage Chanel?”
In Collection(s)
Exhibitions:
- RetroSpective
- Norman Norell