Evening dress

Designer Geoffrey Beene American

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The tracing lace provides both closure and aperture in Beene's dress, revealing the body and evoking a distinctive, undulating movement through the little black dress. Beene winds the lace around the body, including front and back, with the ease of Madeleine Vionnet.

Evening dress, Geoffrey Beene (American, Haynesville, Louisiana 1927–2004 New York), wool, silk, plastic, American

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