Detail View: The AMICA Library: Evening gown
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AMICA ID:
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MMA_.1993.55
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AMICA Library Year:
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2000
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Object Type:
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Costume and Jewelry
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Creator Name:
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Fath, Jacques
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Creator Nationality:
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European; French
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Creator Role:
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Designer
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Creator Dates/Places:
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French, 1912 - 1954
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Designed by Jacques Fath
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Title:
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Evening gown
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Title Type:
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Object name
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View:
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Full View
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Creation Date:
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spring/summer 1947
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Creation Start Date:
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1947
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Creation End Date:
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1947
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Materials and Techniques:
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silk, steel boning
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Classification Term:
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Main dress-Womenswear
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Dimensions:
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L. at center back 52 in. (132 cm)
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Owner Location:
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New York, New York, USA
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ID Number:
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1993.55
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Credit Line:
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Gift of Richard Martin, 1993
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Rights:
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Context:
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The corset is a fashion convention to define the waist and project the bosom. Challenged by nature, reason, and gender rights, the corsetted silhouette remained a persistent aesthetic ideal of the twentieth century. During the 1940s and 1950s, in particular, ideas of femininity were expressed fashion-wise in a cinched waist akin to the corsetted construction of the past, as in this evening gown by Jacques Fath. Despite the anachronistic lacing, this dress reveals its structure like a modernist building. Pink, a color of twentieth-century lingerie, is combined with a traditional lacing in an evening silhouette of the postwar years, here given deeper historical resonance. In 1954, just before his death, Fath returned to the representation of the corset as a means of reationalizing the wasp waist he preferred. |
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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MMA_.ci1993.55.R.tif
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