Evening dress
Design House House of Balenciaga French
Designer Cristobal Balenciaga Spanish
Not on view
Shaved ostrich feathers, their filaments stripped and dyed, are individually applied to the silk, anchored upward and against the grain in order to form an animated field in soft colors. Like the optical effect of an Impressionist painting, the dress is seen distinctly at a distance, but as a complex accretion at close range.
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