Evening dress
Vionnet exposed her composition with characteristic subtlety. the wide cylinder of bias cut is pulled in at center front, radiating from and anchored by the buckle. To the casual observer, the effect is superficial and the buckle may seem applied decoration. Strategically placed at the nexus of bias construction, the center front is the dynamic convergence of the dress as a composition. In such a gesture, Vionnet was a dauntless modernist.
Artwork Details
- Title: Evening dress
- Design House: House of Vionnet (French, active 1912–14; 1918–39)
- Designer: Madeleine Vionnet (French, Chilleurs-aux-Bois 1876–1975 Paris)
- Date: 1936–37
- Culture: French
- Medium: silk
- Credit Line: Gift of Madame Madeleine Vionnet, 1952
- Object Number: C.I.52.18.2
- Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute
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