Terms and conditions of use
Evening dress
(c. 1935)
- Medium
- silk
- Measurements
- 150.0 cm (centre back) 38.5 cm (waist, flat)
- Place/s of Execution
- (England)
- Accession Number
- CT27-1988
- Department
- International Fashion and Textiles
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Mrs V. Askew, 1988
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Professor AGL Shaw AO Bequest - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Historian Christian Esquevin argues that Hollywood films reintroduced sex appeal into Parisian fashion after the boyish fashion of the 1920s. Yet it was through the application of Vionnet’s bias-cut to Hollywood gowns that timeless cinema styles were created. In the 1930s, fashionable dresses became both figure-hugging and floor-length. The combination of Parisian techniques and Hollywood glamour helped shape the most influential fashion role model and silhouette of the decade, which became known as the Hollywood Line.