Object: Evening dress
Designer:
Maggy Rouff
(1896 - 1971)
Retailer:
Bergdorf Goodman
(American, founded 1899)
Date: 1939
Medium: Ivory rayon lamé
Country: France
Credit Line: Gift of Molly Milbank
Object number: 92.149.2
DescriptionLong evening gown in ivory rayon lamé shirred with casings for V-shaped corset on long torso bodice and along hipline; gold lamé rouleau shoulder straps extending through casings to tie belt; couture
Label Text:Maggy Rouff was born into the business of fashion: she was the daughter of the proprietors of the Parisian couture house Drécoll. Rouff designed sportswear for Drécoll prior to opening her own house in 1929. The New York Times praised the beautiful drapery of her late 1930s “romantic Greek evening gowns [which] glorify the very feminine, supple, amphora figure.”
In Collection(s)
Exhibitions:
- Fashioning the Modern Woman: The Art of the Couturiere, 1919-1939