Live Auction 3139Fashion
A CITRUS YELLOW SILK CHIFFON EVENING GOWN
Lot 68

A CITRUS YELLOW SILK CHIFFON EVENING GOWN

JEAN DESSÈS, CIRCA 1950-53

Closed1 December 2011

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GBP 2,750

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A CITRUS YELLOW SILK CHIFFON EVENING GOWN
JEAN DESSÈS, CIRCA 1950-53
the bodice with woven pleats, with integral boning, the skirts full, with halterneck and shoulder straps and with popper and zipper fastening

Specialist note

See Claire Wilcox, The Golden Age of Couture, Paris and London, 1947-57, p.85 for a comparable dress by Dessès.

See also Vanity Fair's On Couture Supplement, reproduced here on pages 20-1.