Object: Evening dress
Designer:
Louiseboulanger
(1878 - 1950)
Date: 1929
Medium: Silk georgette and silk velvet ribbon
Country: France
Credit Line: Gift of Muriel King
Object number: 71.268.7
DescriptionEvening dress in sheer georgette, printed in pink and grey apple blossom pattern on black ground; couture
Label Text:Approximately four years before establishing her own label, Muriel King purchased this dress while working in Paris as a fashion illustrator. Louiseboulanger's design elegantly reflects the shifting hemline of the late 1920s: through an adept use of asymmetry, the sharply delineated tiers cascade to the floor in anticipation of the coming decade's longer silhouette. King obviously admired Louiseboulanger's innovative use of proportion and print, as her wardrobe contained several pieces by this couturière.
In Collection(s)
Exhibitions:
- Fashioning the Modern Woman: The Art of the Couturiere, 1919-1939
- Elegance in an Age of Crisis: Fashions from the 1930s
- Designing Women: Fashion Creators and Their Interiors
- Arbiters of Style