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Evening dress Evening dress
Cristóbal Balenciaga
The Victoria and Albert Museum
London, United Kingdom
Throughout the 1950s Cristóbal Balenciaga (1895-1972) designed a series of extravagant and inventive evening dresses (mainly in fine silk taffeta) that were based on immense drapes and flounces. In this dress he confines the bouffant drapes to the back, while in contrast the front has a simple appearance with a V-neck and a straight, very narrow skirt, slit at the centre front hem to allow movement.
X-ray by Nick Veasey, 2016. © Nick Veasey
Details
- Title: Evening dress Evening dress
- Creator: Cristóbal Balenciaga
- Fashion House: Cristóbal Balenciaga
- Date Created: 1954
- Location Created: Paris
- Physical Dimensions: Circumference: 83 cm bust, Circumference: 58 cm waist, Circumference: 220 cm hem, Length: 35.8 cm Bodice to waist, Length: 10 cm Arm opening - left, Length: 12.5 cm Arm opening - right
- Provenance: Given by Miss Caroline Combe
- Medium: Silk taffeta, boned and padded, metal, machine-sewn and hand-finished, wire, lined with chiffon
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