Object: Evening dress
Designer:
Vionnet
(1876 - 1975)
Date: c.1938
Medium: Silver lamé
Country: France
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. Rodman A. Heeren
Object number: 70.57.87
DescriptionBias-cut evening dress in silver lamé with halter neckline and X-shaped waist darts; couture
Label Text:The fashion cognoscenti consider Madeleine Vionnet to have been the greatest couturiere of her day. Called the “Euclid of Fashion” and the “Geometer of Couture,” Vionnet standardized draping by exploiting the possibilities of the bias and designs with mathematical precision. Her techniques were revolutionary, but so, too, was her aesthetic choice to reject darts, waistbands, inner linings, and corsetry. Vionnet produced effortlessly beautiful dresses, such as this lamé gown, that were deceptively simple in shape, cut, and manipulation.
In Collection(s)
Exhibitions:
- Fashioning the Modern Woman: The Art of the Couturiere, 1919-1939