Ball gown
When he first arrived in New York in 1955, Scaasi worked for Charles James. From James, Scaasi developed his idea of the body as an armature for biomorphic geometry during the same era that Saint Laurent at Dior was creating the pure geometry of the trapeze.
Artwork Details
- Title: Ball gown
- Designer: Arnold Scaasi (American, born Montreal, Canada, 1931–2015)
- Date: 1955
- Culture: American
- Medium: silk, pelon, boning
- Credit Line: Gift of Miss Gillis MacGil, 1961
- Object Number: C.I.61.6.1
- Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute
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