Hat
Brand
Christian Dior
(French, founded 1947)
Designer
Christian Dior
(1905 - 1957)
c. 1950
Velvet and silk
Gift of Doris Duke
Object number72.81.38
This skull cap features two clusters of cream-colored silk roses, buds, and green cotton leaves on stems, each cluster itself resembling a large rose bloom. The stamenless roses—six in the right-hand cluster, and five in the left—are made in four different sizes. The roses and buds have long, stiffened cotton sepals dyed dark green on the face and a lighter green on the reverse.
DescriptionBlack velvet calot hat with full bunches of artificial white gardenias and black sheer nose veilCollections
Exhibitions