Designed by Cristobal Balenciaga / Ball gown / autumn/winter 1948

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Creator Name: Balenciaga, Cristobal
Creator Nationality: European; Iberian; Spanish
Creator Role: Designer
Creator Dates/Places: Spanish, 1895-1972
Creator Name-CRT: Designed by Cristobal Balenciaga
Title: Ball gown
Title Type: Object name
View: Full View
Creation Start Date: 1948
Creation End Date: 1948
Creation Date: autumn/winter 1948
Object Type: Costume and Jewelry
Classification Term: Main dress-Womenswear
Materials and Techniques: silk, crinoline, steel
Dimensions: L. at center back 43 1/2 in. (110.5 cm)
AMICA Contributor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Owner Location: New York, New York, USA
ID Number: CI 58.13.6ab
Credit Line: Gift of Lisa and Jody Greene, in memory of their loving mother, Ethel S. Greene, 1958
Rights: http://www.metmuseum.org/
Context:

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.

AMICA ID: MMA_.CI58.13.6ab
AMICA Library Year: 2000
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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