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Evening Dress
Pierre Balmain for Balmain1960
Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles
Bangkok, Thailand
This dress, created in spring 1960, is one of the most formal Her Majesty owned, clearly shows Balmain’s love of 18th-century European modes and decoration in the style and placement of the scrolling embroidery and the gown’s wide-skirted silhouette.
Silk satin with metal - and iridescent-thread and crystal embroidery by House of Lesage.
Details
- Title: Evening Dress
- Creator: Pierre Balmain
- Fashion House: Balmain
- Manufacturer: House of Lesage
- Date Created: 1960
- Location Created: Paris, France
- Type: Dress
- Rights: Collection of Her Majesty Queen Sirikit.
- Medium: Silk satin
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