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The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Object record

Dress

1973

Materials

silk

House / label

Stephen Burrows

Collection

1973

Archive reference

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 846551

Behind the design

Layers of brilliant pink silk descend diagonally from this sleeveless dress, creating an uneven hem and a light, mobile silhouette. The Met records the garment as a 1973 design. Seen alongside Burrows’s multicolored evening ensemble of approximately the same year, it demonstrates a related interest in flowing layers and asymmetric lines.

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