(Textile) "Toundra"
Bergdorf Goodman's designer salon sold their own designs as well as authorized copies of couture pieces. This dress, while not the same design, is made using the identical fabric, named "Toundra, " as a Balenciaga evening gown from 1960.
Artwork Details
- Title: (Textile) "Toundra"
- Manufacturer: Textile manufactured by Abraham & Brauchbar (Swiss)
- Department Store: Bergdorf Goodman (American, founded 1899)
- Date: ca. 1969
- Culture: American
- Medium: silk
- Credit Line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Alan L. Corey, Jr., 1980
- Object Number: 2009.300.534
- Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute
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