Watteau evening dress
spring/summer 1996
Materials
Shot silk faille, taffeta and deerskin
House / label
Vivienne Westwood
Collection
Les Femmes ne Connaissent pas toute leur Coquetterie · Spring/Summer 1996
Archive reference
Victoria and Albert Museum · addition-westwood-1996-watteau
Behind the design
Westwood reworked the eighteenth-century sack-back gown with an asymmetrical neckline and a gathered pouf on one side. The green and lilac silk silhouette refers to the clothes in Antoine Watteau’s paintings. The V&A records this three-piece ensemble as a skirt, corset and deerskin glove.
