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This object consists of 2 parts, some of which may be located elsewhere.

Evening Dress

Spring 1959 (made)
Artist/Maker
Cristóbal Balenciaga (designer)
Place of origin
Paris (made)

Strapless evening dress and cummerbund of purple floral silk organza.


Object details

Categories
Fashion
Evening Wear
Womenswear
Object type
Evening dress
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Cummerbund
  • Evening Dress
Materials and techniques
Silk organza
Brief description
Strapless evening dress and cummerbund of silk organza, designed by Cristóbal Balenciaga, Paris, 1959
Physical description
Strapless evening dress and cummerbund of purple floral silk organza.
Production typeHaute couture
Marks and inscriptions
  • Balenciaga, 10 Avenue George V, Paris (Label, inside side bodice. Black on white machine woven.)
  • 68566 (Hand-written on back of label)
Credit line
Given by Mrs D.M. Haynes and Mrs M. Clark
Object history
Opal Holt was born in Canada in 1887 but lived in the US until the end of the Second World War. She travelled extensively between the wars and was in the first plane to land in Bali. She married Herbert Holt, a Canadian who lived a large part of his life in England, as her third husband in 1946. They came to England and Europe every summer and Opal Holt began buying clothes in Paris for her life in England, and for the Bahamas in Winter, over a period of about thirty years. She died in 1980.

Given by Mrs D.M Haynes and Mrs. Clark (nee Holt; Opal Holt's step-daughters).
Production
Date attributed by Mme. Jouve, Balenciaga archivist
Subject depicted
Flowers
Other number
No. 100 - Attributed by Mme. Jouve
Collection
Textiles and Fashion Collection
Accession number
T.125&A-1982

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Record createdJanuary 3, 2006
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O120151/evening-dress-cristóbal-balenciaga/
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