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Evening dress

Designer Geoffrey Beene American
1991
Not on view
More than any other designer other than Vionnet, Beene designs in the round. He swirls and spirals shape three-dimensionally, most especially the potentially disruptive aperture of lace. The lace's stretch is part of Beene's dynamic and gyrating course in the dress, vesting it with pirouetting, dancing energy. As Bill Cunningham has said, "Beene's work is the last link on an unbroken chain of great dressmakers stretching back to the Golden Age of the 1920s and 1930s."

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Evening dress
  • Designer: Geoffrey Beene (American, Haynesville, Louisiana 1927–2004 New York)
  • Date: 1991
  • Culture: American
  • Medium: silk, metal
  • Credit Line: Gift of Anne H. Bass, 1993
  • Object Number: 1993.345.12
  • Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute

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