Evening dress

Designer:: Madeleine Vionnet (French, Chilleurs-aux-Bois 1876–1975 Paris)

Date:: spring/summer 1938

Culture:: French

Medium:: rayon

Dimensions:: Length at CB: 55 in. (139.7 cm)

Credit Line:: Gift of Madame Madeleine Vionnet, 1952

Accession Number:: C.I.52.18.4

Not on view

Though there are separate specialists for applied braid and fringe, known as the crépinières, Vionnet chose in this instance to employ an embroidery of individual graduated lengths of silk thread passed and looped through the fabric, with each thread forming two drops of fringe. The scallop arcs constitute the sole decoration of the dress.

Marking: [label] Madeleine Vionnet, summer, 1938

Essays
Costume in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Twentieth–Century Silhouette and Support

Timelines
France, 1900 A.D.–present

Haute Couture

Department

Costume Institute (34,375)

Artist / Maker / Culture

Madeleine Vionnet (121)

Object Type / Material

Costume (43,206)

Dresses (5,901)

Evening dresses (1,902)

Rayon (573)

Geographic Location

Europe (166,762)

France (55,496)

Date / Era

A.D. 1900–present (101,154)

Evening cape

Artist: Madeleine Vionnet (French, Chilleurs-aux-Bois 1876–1975 Paris) Date: ca. 1920 Medium: Silk, fur Accession: 2009.300.7292 On view in:Not on view

Evening cape

Artist: Madeleine Vionnet (French, Chilleurs-aux-Bois 1876–1975 Paris) Date: 1936–37 Medium: silk, wool Accession: 1975.394 On view in:Not on view

Coat

Artist: Attributed to Madeleine Vionnet (French, Chilleurs-aux-Bois 1876–1975 Paris) Date: ca. 1933 Medium: wool, fur Accession: 1982.422.3 On view in:Not on view

Evening dress

Artist: Madeleine Vionnet (French, Chilleurs-aux-Bois 1876–1975 Paris) Date: 1930 Medium: (a) silk, cotton (b) silk Accession: 1979.575.1a, b On view in:Not on view

Evening dress

Artist: Madeleine Vionnet (French, Chilleurs-aux-Bois 1876–1975 Paris) Date: 1917 Medium: silk Accession: C.I.52.18.5 On view in:Not on view