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Dimensions
center back 36-1/2 in., waist 23 in., bust 28 in
Mark Description
Label: Automne-Hiver 1955 / Christian Dior / Paris Label, couture number: 78277
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Delavan Smith Fund
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Collection
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Provenance
Acquired by Mrs. Elizabeth Parke Firestone [1897-1990]. Purchased by Beverley Birks from (Sotheby's, New York, December 1991); purchased by the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 2006
Gallery Labels
This semiformal evening dress in midnight blue has a sweetheart neckline and semicircular skirt. The beadwork, done in a geometric motif, was custom-made for the dress, possibly by Lesage.
Dior's resolution in 1955 was to take overall embroidery and to treat the whole of the dress like a unified canvas. The pattern and form of this dress are integrated into an artistic whole that has the impact of a sculpture.
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