Ball gown

Design House House of Balenciaga French
 Designer Cristobal Balenciaga Spanish

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Keenly historicist, Balenciaga invented a fantasy of eighteenth-century court dress, knowing that Marie-Antoinette favored overdresses with swags anchored by roses. Sustained by wide panniers also appropriated from eighteenth-century fashion, Balenciaga renewed the Rococo rose for the 1940s and 1950s.

Ball gown, House of Balenciaga (French, founded 1937), silk, steel, French

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Ball gown, House of Balenciaga (French, founded 1937), silk, steel, French
Ball gown, House of Balenciaga (French, founded 1937), silk, steel, French
Ball gown, House of Balenciaga (French, founded 1937), silk, steel, French
Ball gown, House of Balenciaga (French, founded 1937), silk, steel, French
Ball gown, House of Balenciaga (French, founded 1937), silk, steel, French

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