Madeline vionnet

Evening Dresses for Vogue, 1930, by Edward Steichen

Madeleine Vionnet (1876 – 1975) was a French fashion designer that is influential in the 20th century and inspired me as much as Madame Gres. photograph by Irving Penn for Vionnet, 1974 she was known for introducing bias-cutting into pattern making. it is indeed a revolutionary way of draping fabric, clinging on the body beautifully - simple but never plain. Vionnet's goddess gown, 1935; recalling the Greek look in the early 20th century, she freed women from corsets and bustles that…

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Carnival dress

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 Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Art of Fashion," October 23, 1967–January 1, 1968.New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The 10s, the 20s, the 30s: Inventive Clothes, 1909–1939," December 13, 1973–September 3, 1974

Madeleine Vionnet was born on 22nd June 1876 in Chilleurs-aux-Bois. When she was eleven she left school and became an apprentice for Madame Bourgueil in Aubervilliers. She’d moved to England by 189…

Unlabeled black silk crepe bias cut evening gown AW 1936 w/ mobius panel encirlcing right shoulder across neckline & over left shoulder to hem, side decollete to plunging V-back, couture construction, Madeleine Vionnet, B 36", W 26", H 34" L 59-64", excellent.