Evening dress

Design House House of Vionnet French
 Designer Madeleine Vionnet French

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Vionnet's method was to use a diminutive dress form so that she could work front and back as well with a minimum of cloth's weight and drag. Her front and back are unified via the neckline buttons at the far sides that attach a front flap of the bodice with over-the-shoulder pieces coming from the back. Vionnet purposely denied the usual dialectic of front and back, preferring that shifting Mobius plane that Cubism used so purposefully as pictorial convention.

Evening dress, House of Vionnet (French, active 1912–14; 1918–39), silk, French

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Evening dress, House of Vionnet (French, active 1912–14; 1918–39), silk, French
Evening dress, House of Vionnet (French, active 1912–14; 1918–39), silk, French
Evening dress, House of Vionnet (French, active 1912–14; 1918–39), silk, French
Evening dress, House of Vionnet (French, active 1912–14; 1918–39), silk, French

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