Evening dress
Lucile · 1922
Lucile
- Romantic couture
- Lingerie-inspired eveningwear
Lucile was the professional name of British couturière Lucy Christiana Duff-Gordon. Her dresses and lingerie favored delicate fabrics, soft color and an intimate, romantic atmosphere.
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Evening dress
1922 · Season not documented
This New York-labelled evening dress documents Lucile’s international couture business at the end of the designer’s active association with her fashion houses.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Carresaute
1905 · V&A collection
Silk chiffon over silk linings, boning, metallic embroidery, lace, ribbon flowers, self fabric ruffles and frills.
©Victoria and Albert Museum, London
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Evening dress
1912 · V&A collection
Silk, chiffon, satin, embroidered and appliqued metal thread, glass beads, sequins (gelatin?), metal hooks and eyes, silk net.
©Victoria and Albert Museum, London/Lucile
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Evening dress
1913 · V&A collection
Satin, trimmed with chiffon and machine-made lace, silk velvet, lined with grosgrain, whalebone.
©Victoria and Albert Museum, London/Lucile
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Dress
c.1912 · V&A collection
Silk crêpe, silk, machine-made lace, lined, boned.
©Victoria and Albert Museum, London/LucileCollections & archive pieces
1 collections represented · 1 pieceSeason not documented
1 piece
About Lucile
She also helped develop the presentation of fashion through carefully staged mannequin parades and distinctive names for individual designs. Branches in London, Paris, New York and Chicago made the business unusually international for its time. Her career began in the nineteenth century and extended into the early 1920s. A New York-labelled evening dress dated 1922 records that final phase of her career.