Evening Dress
1993 (made)
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Evening dress in golden silk organza with gold metallic threads. Slender skirt buttons up the back to the high waisted bodice, which laces in back using the spaghetti shoulder straps, also in gold organza.
Skirt is appliqued throughout with narrow rows of gold organza with double tabs of organza and creating a mass of overlapping and massed golden tabs all over the skirt.
Skirt is appliqued throughout with narrow rows of gold organza with double tabs of organza and creating a mass of overlapping and massed golden tabs all over the skirt.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Silk organza with gold threads |
| Brief description | Evening dress of silk organza with metallic threads, designed by Maurizio Galante, Italy, late 1993 |
| Physical description | Evening dress in golden silk organza with gold metallic threads. Slender skirt buttons up the back to the high waisted bodice, which laces in back using the spaghetti shoulder straps, also in gold organza. Skirt is appliqued throughout with narrow rows of gold organza with double tabs of organza and creating a mass of overlapping and massed golden tabs all over the skirt. |
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| Production type | Haute couture |
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| Credit line | Gift of clothes designed and given by Maurizio Galante. |
| Production | Autumn / Winter collection 1993-1994 Attribution note: Probably high end ready to wear, although extremely labour intensive and complex, hence categorisation as haute couture. Reason For Production: Retail |
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| Accession number | T.101-1998 |
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| Record created | February 9, 2007 |
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