Object: Dress
Brand:
Balenciaga
(French, founded 1937)
Designer:
Cristóbal Balenciaga
(1895 - 1972)
Date: Fall 1957
Medium: Slubbed silk
Country: France
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Beth Levine
Object number: 77.27.2
DescriptionDouble-breasted sack style coat dress and skirt in cream slubbed silk; open neck with wide peaked lapel, front and back shoulder yoke, slanted sideseams; straight skirt
Exhibitions:
- Dior + Balenciaga: The Kings of Couture and Their Legacies