Object: Evening set
Designer:
Halston
(1932 - 1990)
Retailer:
Bergdorf Goodman
(American, founded 1899)
Date: 1976
Medium: Hammered silk satin
Country: USA
Credit Line: Gift of Frederick Supper
Object number: 82.3.9
DescriptionEvening dress with matching stole. Evening dress of pale peach pink hammered satin; strapless with self tie at CF neckline; one-piece; floor length bias cut. Matching stole: one-piece bias tube.
Label Text:Halston's elegant satin gown was inspired by the idea of wrapping the body with a bath towel and tying it over the breasts. Its structure, of course, is not that simple.
In Collection(s)
Exhibitions:
- Halston: Absolute Modernism, Retrospective and Minimalism
- Yves Saint Laurent + Halston: Fashioning the 70s
- Exhibitionism: 50 Years of the Museum at FIT
- Seventh Avenue: Fashion Walk of Fame
- American Beauty
- Impact: 50 Years of the CFDA
- Form Follows Fashion