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Fashion Design

February 1938 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Fashion design, pencil and watercolour on grey paper, for a navy blue crepe dinner dress and trailing stole with silver embroidery on the dress bodice. Attached typewritten note gives details of the actress and the stage production.


Object details

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Object type
Materials and techniques
pencil and watercolour on grey paper, typewritten note
Brief description
Netty Ferro or Jean-Denis Maillart for Worth. Design for a navy blue crepe dinner dress and stole with silver embroidery for Yolande Laffon in "Virage Dangereux" at the Theatre Pigalle, Paris, February 1938.
Physical description
Fashion design, pencil and watercolour on grey paper, for a navy blue crepe dinner dress and trailing stole with silver embroidery on the dress bodice. Attached typewritten note gives details of the actress and the stage production.
Credit line
Given by the House of Worth
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1957-1958 London: HMSO, 1964
Collection
Accession number
E.22200-1957

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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