26 janvier 2012
Balenciaga. Dress (Ball Gown), spring/summer 1948
House of Balenciaga (French, founded 1937), Dress (Ball Gown), spring/summer 1948, silk, steel. Length (a): 53 1/4 in. (135.3 cm) Length at CB (b): 43 1/2 in. (110.5 cm). Gift of Lisa and Jody Greene, in memory of their loving mother, Mrs. Ethel S. Greene, 1958. C.I.58.13.6a, b. The Metropolitan Museum of Art © 2000–2012 The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Keenly historicist, Balenciaga invented a fantasy of eighteenth-century court dress, knowing that Marie-Antoinette favored overdresses with swags anchored by roses. Sustained by wide panniers also appropriated from eighteenth-century fashion, Balenciaga renewed the Rococo rose for the 1940s and 1950s.
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