Evening dress
Design House Gianni Versace Italian
Designer Donatella Versace Italian
Not on view
Worn by Madonna at the "Fire and Ice Ball" honoring Donatella Versace in Los Angeles in December 1998, the zipper-gyration evening gown promises net transparency and/or the unraveled revelation of the body. Most importantly, Donatella Versace has taken one of her brother's signatures--the dress with see-through plastic or plastic seams--and expanded it into a more extravagant creation of her own. The second Versace designer is now in command of the signature and is taking it in her own design direction. Gianni Versace was a generous donor to The Costume Institute; his sister now continues that tradition.
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