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Cocktail dress
Cristóbal Balenciaga for Balenciaga1957
Cristóbal Balenciaga Museoa
Getaria , Spain
No cut at the waistline. The bodice is padded at the chest. It has a boat neck at the front and straps at the centre of the low-cut back. It fastens at the centre of the back with buttons and press-studs. Lined with silk taffeta. The full skirt, over a tarlatan petticoat, is cinched in at the bottom. Lined with silk organza.
Details
- Title: Cocktail dress
- Creator: Cristóbal Balenciaga
- Creator Birth Date: 1895
- Creator Death Date: 1972
- Fashion House: Balenciaga
- Date Created: 1957
- Location Created: San Sebastián, Spain
- Provenance: Worn by Rachel L. Mellon.
- Type: Dress
- Photographer: Manuel Outumuro
- Original Source: CBM 2000.05
- Rights: Cristóbal Balenciaga Museoa
- Medium: Blue satin decorated with a golden candelieri print
- Bibliographic references: Catalogue of the exhibition Hommage à Balenciaga. Lyon: Musée Historique des Tissus, 1985, 78. Catalogue of the exhibition "Cristóbal Balenciaga". Valladolid, Museo Nacional de Escultura, 2000, 55.
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