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Evening dress

Designer:
Madeleine Vionnet (French, Chilleurs-aux-Bois 1876–1975 Paris)
Date:
spring/summer 1938
Culture:
French
Medium:
rayon
Credit Line:
Gift of Madame Madeleine Vionnet, 1952
Accession Number:
C.I.52.18.4
Not on view
Though there are separate specialists for applied braid and fringe, known as the crépinières, Vionnet chose in this instance to employ an embroidery of individual graduated lengths of silk thread passed and looped through the fabric, with each thread forming two drops of fringe. The scallop arcs constitute the sole decoration of the dress.
Marking: [label] Madeleine Vionnet, summer, 1938
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Haute Couture," December 7, 1995–March 24, 1996.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The 10s, the 20s, the 30s: Inventive Clothes (1909–1939)," December 13, 1973–September 3, 1974.

Essays
Costume in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Twentieth-Century Silhouette and Support

Timelines
France, 1900 A.D.-present

Haute Couture

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