Evening dress

Design House House of Balenciaga French
 Designer Cristobal Balenciaga Spanish

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Balenciaga's majestic, streamlined silhouette in chlorophyll green is ever so lightly perforated with abstracted floral forms in this example of eyelet embroidery. A spring green captures the air and transparency that had punctured Edwardian spring and summer dresses. Balenciaga's modernism enables the same zephyrs of springtime.

Evening dress, House of Balenciaga (French, founded 1937), (a) linen; (b) silk b) silk, French

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Evening dress, House of Balenciaga (French, founded 1937), (a) linen; (b) silk b) silk, French
Evening dress, House of Balenciaga (French, founded 1937), (a) linen; (b) silk b) silk, French
Evening dress, House of Balenciaga (French, founded 1937), (a) linen; (b) silk b) silk, French

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