Fashion Nerds

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Object record

Evening dress

1956

Materials

Synthetic fibre and metal

House / label

Lanvin-Castillo

Collection

Season not documented

Archive reference

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 2016.55a, b

Behind the design

Tiered trimming recalls nineteenth-century bustle fashions; the dress was also photographed on Suzy Parker by Richard Avedon in 1956.

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