Evening dress

Designer Geoffrey Beene American

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More than any other designer other than Vionnet, Beene designs in the round. He swirls and spirals shape three-dimensionally, most especially the potentially disruptive aperture of lace. The lace's stretch is part of Beene's dynamic and gyrating course in the dress, vesting it with pirouetting, dancing energy. As Bill Cunningham has said, "Beene's work is the last link on an unbroken chain of great dressmakers stretching back to the Golden Age of the 1920s and 1930s."

Evening dress, Geoffrey Beene (American, Haynesville, Louisiana 1927–2004 New York), silk, metal, American

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Evening dress, Geoffrey Beene (American, Haynesville, Louisiana 1927–2004 New York), silk, metal, American
Evening dress, Geoffrey Beene (American, Haynesville, Louisiana 1927–2004 New York), silk, metal, American

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