Ball gown
Designer Arnold Scaasi American, born Canada
Not on view
When he first arrived in New York in 1955, Scaasi worked for Charles James. From James, Scaasi developed his idea of the body as an armature for biomorphic geometry during the same era that Saint Laurent at Dior was creating the pure geometry of the trapeze.
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