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Description: | Cocktail dress in pale yellow wild silk, entirely decorated with parallel knife-pleats over the bodice, skirt and bertha collar (double pleats on the skirt); sleeveless; attached made-up bow at neck; cb opening and zip; band at waist; bodice lined matching lightweight silk; attached white organdie petticoat; woven labels ; 'Christian Dior - London, modele original, made in England, 19399' and 'Samuels, Manchester'
This is the London version of the model dress from Dior's Printemps 1959 collection; see French Vogue, March 1959 p.104, which is in sky blue, not lemon yellow.
Designed by Yves St Laurent.
Technique: pleated
Material: silk
dress by Christian Dior, London, , 1958-1960, (2002.32).
dress by Christian Dior, London, 1959, (2002.32). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.14870 | Go to resource |
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