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Description: | Summer day dress in rose pink shantung silk, printed with stylised white asterisks; long raglan sleeves; drawstring ties at neck and cuffs; full circular skirt; separate white leather belt; unlabelled but 'Eisa' (Balenciaga).
Very similar to 2011.13.
Belonged to Anne Moen Bullitt (1924-2007). Born in Paris but brought up in the States, she married 4 times. At first she bought clothes in New York, mostly from Hattie Carnegie, but her second husband, Nicholas Duke Biddle, was vice consul in the American Embassy in Madrid, giving Anne access to Balenciaga couture clothes with the Spanish name 'Eisa' operating in tandem with the Paris house. She later moved to Ireland and bought clothes by Sybil Connelly, Lanvin, YSL and others. Anne Bullitt was tiny, with an 18 inch waist, making her clothes virtually unwearable for anyone else.
See L'Officiel Juin 1951, p.125 for this outfit described as 'en shantung rose de Thiebaut-Adam'.
Technique: printed
Material: silk
Summer day dress in rose pink shantung silk, printed with stylised white asterisks. | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.68661 | Go to resource |
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