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The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Object record

Cocktail dress

spring/summer 1956

Materials

silk

House / label

House of Balenciaga

Collection

spring/summer 1956

Archive reference

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 2009.300.28a, b

Behind the design

This silk cocktail dress belongs to Balenciaga's Spring/Summer 1956 collection, within the museum's substantial holdings of his postwar couture.

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