Object: Evening dress
Brand:
Chanel
(French, founded 1914)
Designer:
Gabrielle Chanel
(1883 - 1971)
Date: c. 1926
Medium: Black silk satin with ecru alençon lace
Country: France
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Georges Gudefin
Object number: 80.13.4
DescriptionEvening dress in black silk satin with ecru alençon lace yoke and wrist trim; sawtooth inset bands at lower edge of tunic bodice and on wide hip band; knife pleated lower skirt
Label Text:Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel is often said to have "invented" the Little Black Dress. In reality, other designers, such as Premet, had already sold innumerable simple black dresses, like "La Garçonne," neatly trimmed with white lace collars, years before Chanel made a splash with her little black dress of 1925, which Vogue dubbed a "Fashion Ford." Nevertheless, Chanel was influential in popularizing this and many other quintessentially modern styles.
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