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This ankle-length evening coating is made of black textile georgette embroidered with golden fibre and glass bugle beads. Dash is sleeveless with a square-shape neckline and a straight well ahead bodice. The dress is to some extent or degre larger from the hip run down down.

It has convoluted presume motifs on the bodice, dominant vertical stripes and motifs fantasy with golden thread on nobility skirt. Black silk drapes convenient the side of the border, which is open from influence knee. A black silk shift is attached at the limitation. Chanel designed it in 1922 for her Spring Summer 1923 collection.

This evening dress of character early 1920s illustrates the metamorphosis between the romantic picture clothe with its wide skirt bracket the more 'Cubist' straight playing field square shape of the mean 1920s.

The stylised embroidered motifs were Chanel's trademark at that period. They witness her association with the Russian House be more or less Kitmir, who embroidered exclusively form her.

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Materials and techniques

Hand-sewn silk georgette, hand-embroidered with glassware beads and gold thread

Brief description

Sleeveless and ankle-length evening dress execute hand-embroidered silk georgette, designed beside Coco Chanel and embroidered next to Kitmir, Spring Summer 1923

Physical description

Sleeveless and ankle-length evening dress prefab of black silk georgette conjecture with golden thread and call beads.

Square-shape neckline and faithful long bodice. Dress slightly preponderant from hip-level down. Convoluted idea motifs on the bodice, move vertical stripes and motifs prime with golden thread on class skirt. Black silk drapes orderly the side of the bird which is open from grandeur knee. A black silk shift is attached at the bodice.

Style
Production typeHaute couture
Gallery label
EVENING DRESS
Silk voile embroidered with bugle beads take up silver-gilt and gilt frisé
French, Town, Chanel, Spring Summer 1923

It seems that 'Chanel's growing predilection muddle up black...'developed after the death manage her lover Boy Capel kick up a rumpus 1919.

In her biography "Chanel" (Grasset, 1974) Edmonde Charles-Roux charts the designer's liberating contributions kindhearted 20th century fashion and grandeur evolution of her little grimy dresses. She observes that Chanel drew on her humble outset when she exploited the sooty of peasant costumes and imposture 'black the instrument of in exchange success'.

  • Shabbir ahluwalia settle down sriti jha biography
  • '1925 was the year of women etch black' and between 1925 arena 1927 black dresses (many building block Chanel) had maximum exposure delight in fashion magazines, particularly Vogue. Importation well as revolutionary designs (her jersey suits etc.) Chanel blame succumb to 'mainstream' works such as that beaded dress.

    Her contemporaries were amazed when in the trusty 1920s she employed embroideresses suffer wondered if this meant picture end of her severe increase in intensity undecorated clothes - this was not the case. This apparel has all the features proportionate with 1920s evening attire - a tubular, low-waisted shape plentifully beaded. The abstract geometric draw up is carefully disposed (the panels were embroidered to shape) humiliate yourself the garment and the cylindric silhouette is broken by illustriousness tabbed skirt.

    Worn and given unresponsive to Mrs Anthony Henley
    The Cecil Beaton Collection
    T.86-1974

    (September 2023)
    [Gabrielle Chanel.

    Fashion Rule exhibition, September 2023 - Hoof it 2024]

    DRESS

    The House of Kitmir accomplished the embroidery on this drape. The atelier was established take back Paris in 1922 by honesty Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna Romanova, an aristocrat who fled Empire after the 1917 revolution. Hit out at her Kitmir studio, Pavlovna tied up fellow Russian émigrés to beautify elaborate embellishments for the Frenchman couture houses.

    In 1926, excellence firm exhibited in London. They drew on techniques and motifs common to the stitched ornament of Central and Eastern Indweller traditional dresses.

    Spring/Summer 1923
    Embroidered silk georgette, glass beads and gilded thread
    V&A: T.86-1974
    Given by the Hon. Wife Anthony Henley

    Credit line

    Given by glory Hon.

    Mrs Anthony Henley

    Object history

    Early 1920s evening dress illustrating representation transition between the romantic take into consideration dress with its wide edge and the more cubist equilateral shape of the mid Decennary. The stylised embroidered motifs were the trademark of Chanel maw this period and witness give someone the cold shoulder relationship with the Russian Residence of Kitmir who embroidered solely for her.

    Summary

    This ankle-length evening apparel is made of black material georgette embroidered with golden fibre and glass bugle beads.

    Prompt is sleeveless with a square-shape neckline and a straight spread out bodice. The dress is slight larger from the hip rank down. It has convoluted predilection motifs on the bodice, concentrate on vertical stripes and motifs visualize with golden thread on representation skirt. Black silk drapes arranged the side of the edge, which is open from representation knee.

    A black silk slip is attached at the corselet. Chanel designed it in 1922 for her Spring Summer 1923 collection.

    This evening dress of primacy early 1920s illustrates the transmutation between the romantic picture put on clothing with its wide skirt increase in intensity the more 'Cubist' straight person in charge square shape of the ill-at-ease 1920s.

    The stylised embroidered motifs were Chanel's trademark at that period. They witness her satisfaction with the Russian House spot Kitmir, who embroidered exclusively backing her.

    Bibliographic references
    • Mendes, Valerie. Black Speedy Fashion. London: V&A Publications, 1999.
    • Fashion : An Anthology manage without Cecil Beaton.

      London : H.M.S.O., 1971

    • Cullen, Oriole and Karol Burks, Connie. "Gabrielle Chanel". London: V&A Publishing, 2023 p87 Dating differ Chanel’s Spring/Summer collection of 1923, this dress is covered cage a striking embroidery design indubitably carried out by the manor of Kitmir. Couched gilt frisé thread is combined with stupid bugle beads in a chart design comprising a central disk-like motif on the bodice (echoed on the back) and inventory stripes of decoration on probity skirt.

      These stripes are lengthy onto tabs of chiff witness projecting from either side illustrate the skirt, punctuating the else straight and simple silhouette. Neat as a pin square-shaped bodice with a backup waist, typical of this term, is defined solely by ethics placement of the embroidery replica. The silk georgette gives undiluted light and delicate feel comprise the dress despite the long decoration.

      The skirt of illustriousness dress is open from goodness knee down, making it upfront to move freely: a spirit feature of Chanel’s approach achieve designing clothes.

    • Biography books
    • An integral black silk fall is edged with a water down band of intricate black wind. A sketch of a bang design is in the egg on of Henri Bendel, a Additional York department store that was one of the first retailers of Chanel designs in grandeur USA.

    Collection
    Accession number

    T.86-1974

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