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Evening Dress
Erté, c. 1922 - c. 1924
In the 1920s the silhouette became straighter and the natural waistline was ignored. The Russian-French designer Romain de Tirtoff (Erté) designed this evening gown for a fashion house in San Francisco. The fabric is woven of silver-plated copper thread and embroidered with coloured glass beads and pearls. The stylized Persian and Egyptian motifs were all the rage thanks to the discovery of Tutankhamun’s grave in 1922.
- Artwork typejapon, evening dress
- Object numberBK-1973-369
- Dimensionslength 130 cm
- Physical characteristicszilverlamégeborduurd met glazen kralen en kunstparels