Object: Evening dress
Designer:
Vionnet
(1876 - 1975)
Date: 1930
Medium: Silk georgette
Country: France
Credit Line: Museum purchase
Object number: P83.39.7
DescriptionLong sleeveless evening dress in ivory bias-cut silk georgette shaped through torso with pintucked design of roses; slit neckline, shirred shoulderline with self tie attached at right; flared circle skirt; matching crepe chemise underdress with camisole neck and scalloped hem; couture, with picot edge and hand stitching
Label Text:Vionnet designed in three dimensions, draping on a miniature mannequin before trying out her designs on a living, moving human being. In this way, she captured the subtle beauty of the female body in motion. This dress features a pintuck design of roses.
In Collection(s)
Exhibitions:
- Eco-Fashion: Going Green
- Ravishing: The Rose in Fashion
- Fashion & Textile History Gallery First Rotation
- Exhibitionism: 50 Years of the Museum at FIT
- Fashioning the Modern Woman: The Art of the Couturiere, 1919-1939
- Elegance in an Age of Crisis: Fashions from the 1930s