Evening ensemble

Design House Maisons Agnès-Drecoll French
 Designer Jeanne Havet French

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Displaying a Chinoiserie delicately appropriated from the decorative arts, Drécoll's coral-orange bolero is worn atop her Western-style (but cheongsam- or qi-pao-related) column dress. The result is a Shanghai-like synthesis of East and West. By the 1930s, the frequent trade expositions in Paris had encouraged keen awareness of Chinese costume and arts among French fashion designers, including Grès, Lanvin, and Drécoll. Drécoll cleverly used the exoticism of the bolero to set the rank badges onto Western dress as a kind of acknowledged appliqué.

Evening ensemble, Maisons Agnès-Drecoll (French, 1931–1963), a) wool b) silk c) coral, silver, rhinestones, French

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Evening ensemble, Maisons Agnès-Drecoll (French, 1931–1963), a) wool b) silk c) coral, silver, rhinestones, French
Evening ensemble, Maisons Agnès-Drecoll (French, 1931–1963), a) wool b) silk c) coral, silver, rhinestones, French
Evening ensemble, Maisons Agnès-Drecoll (French, 1931–1963), a) wool b) silk c) coral, silver, rhinestones, French
Evening ensemble, Maisons Agnès-Drecoll (French, 1931–1963), a) wool b) silk c) coral, silver, rhinestones, French
Evening ensemble, Maisons Agnès-Drecoll (French, 1931–1963), a) wool b) silk c) coral, silver, rhinestones, French
Evening ensemble, Maisons Agnès-Drecoll (French, 1931–1963), a) wool b) silk c) coral, silver, rhinestones, French
Evening ensemble, Maisons Agnès-Drecoll (French, 1931–1963), a) wool b) silk c) coral, silver, rhinestones, French
Evening ensemble, Maisons Agnès-Drecoll (French, 1931–1963), a) wool b) silk c) coral, silver, rhinestones, French
Evening ensemble, Maisons Agnès-Drecoll (French, 1931–1963), a) wool b) silk c) coral, silver, rhinestones, French
Evening ensemble, Maisons Agnès-Drecoll (French, 1931–1963), a) wool b) silk c) coral, silver, rhinestones, French
Evening ensemble, Maisons Agnès-Drecoll (French, 1931–1963), a) wool b) silk c) coral, silver, rhinestones, French

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