Evening Dress
1996 (made)
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V-neck t-shirts and 1930s bias-cut evening dresses inspired this intricately knitted evening dress with semi-circular train. The designer, Julien MacDonald, creates ingenious and highly complex knitted garments. This dress, for example, took him three weeks to make. It is intended to be worn with only a pair of black lace pants.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Machine-knitted and hand-knitted viscose and lurex |
| Brief description | Knitted evening dress of viscose and lurex, designed by Julien MacDonald, Great Britain, 1996 |
| Physical description | Knitted evening dress with a semi-circular train. Machine-knitted and hand-knitted black viscose and lurex. |
| Production type | Haute couture |
| Credit line | Given by the designer |
| Object history | Part of an outfit with T.24:2-1997. |
| Summary | V-neck t-shirts and 1930s bias-cut evening dresses inspired this intricately knitted evening dress with semi-circular train. The designer, Julien MacDonald, creates ingenious and highly complex knitted garments. This dress, for example, took him three weeks to make. It is intended to be worn with only a pair of black lace pants. |
| Associated object | T.24:2-1997 (Ensemble) |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | T.24:1-1997 |
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| Record created | August 20, 2003 |
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